num_pages: 368
description: Prague Tales ia a collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, and bitter-sweet stories of life among the inhabitants of the Little Quarter of nineteenth-century Prague. These finely tuned and varied vignettes established Neruda as the quintessential Czech realist--considered by many to be theCharles Dickens of nineteenth-century Czechoslovakia. Through Neruda's writings, the reader can fully appreciate Prague's ever increasing awareness of itself as a Czech, rather than an Austrian city. Prague Tales is a classic collection by a writer whose influence hass been acknowledged bygenerations of writers, including Capek, Kafka, Kundera, Skvorecky, and Ivan Klima, one of the most well-known and highly regarded contemporary Czech writers, who has contributed an Introduction to this new translation.
language: English
title: Prague Tales
titlecomplete: Prague Tales
genres: Fiction, European Literature, Short Stories, School, Literature, Czech Literature, Classics, 19th Century, Travel, Unfinished
ratings_count: 2538
places: Prague (Praha), Czech Republic
awards: awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Prêmio Literário Biblioteca Nacional
category: TRADUÇÃO - Prêmio Paulo Rónai
publisher: Oxford University Press