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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140182743
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (827 download)
Download or read book The Good Soldier Svejk written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translates the iconoclastic Czech's classic satire depicting the adventures of a soldier during the First World War
Author : Jaroslav Hasek
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Good Soldier Schweik written by Jaroslav Hasek and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jaroslav Hašek
Publisher : Good Soldier Švejk
ISBN 13 : 1438916701
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, Book Two written by Jaroslav Hašek and published by Good Soldier Švejk. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picaresque series of tales about an ordinary man's successful quest to survive, and a funny but unrelentingly savage assault on the very idea of bureaucratic officialdom as a human enterprise conferring benefits on those who live under its control, and on the various justifications bureaucracies offer for their own existence.
Author : Jaroslav Hasek
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 9780679420361
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Good Soldier Svejk written by Jaroslav Hasek and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1993-05-25 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Soldier Švejk, written in the aftermath of World War I by Czech humorist Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923), stands as the classic satiric portrait of a little man waging war against authority. The unassuming and affable Švejk, having been called to serve in the Austro-Hungarian army at the start of the Great War, shrewdly plays the bumbling fool and makes a genial nuisance of himself, managing to avoid ever reaching the front while appearing loyally determined to do so. Possessed of an unerring talent for finding himself in (and extricating himself from) the most chaotic and absurd situations, Švejk represents, in his instinct for survival, all those human values that stand opposed to the utter futility of warfare. Hašek’s novel, inspired by the author’s own wartime escapades, has entertained readers in more than fifty languages for nearly a century and has come to define the spirit of comic endurance necessary to withstand the manglings of a modern-day bureaucratic war machine. This hardcover edition, translated and introduced by Cecil Parrott, is lavishly illustrated with 156 drawings by Hašek’s friend and colleague, the Czech cartoonist Josef Lada, and includes maps, a guide to pronouncing Czech names, a bibliography, and a chronology of the author’s life and times. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
Author : Jaroslav Hašek
Publisher : Editions Gallimard
ISBN 13 : 9782070366767
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War written by Jaroslav Hašek and published by Editions Gallimard. This book was released on 1975 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Vous n'auriez pas, par hasard, une ceinture sur vous pour que j'en finisse ? - Si, et je vous la prêterai volontiers, répondit Chvéïk en quittant sa ceinture, d'autant plus que je n'ai encore jamais vu comment on fait pour se pendre dans une cellule. Ce qui est embêtant, continua-t-il en regardant autour de lui, c'est qu'il n'y a pas un seul piton ici. "
Author : Jaroslav Hašek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Good Soldier Svejk written by Jaroslav Hašek and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jaroslav Hašek
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 802463287X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Behind the Lines written by Jaroslav Hašek and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of short stories entitled Behind the Lines: Bulguma and Other Stories draws on Hašek’s experience from revolutionary Russia. In a manner similar to that employed in his caricatures of the pre-war monarchy, he satirically captures events of the Bolshevik revolution from the perspective of a Red commissar in a combination of grotesque humor and sarcasm. Historical events serve merely as part of the historical mystification. Hašek presents them as he perceived them as a man and participant in historical events. He depicts them primarily as simple and human, pushing his critical view into the background. On the border of a comic exaggeration and a realistic depiction, an amusing story about a forgotten Tartar town of Bugulma unfolds featuring the Soviet commander of the Tver Revolutionary Regiment, drunk Yerokhimov, and Comrade Gašek, the Commanding Officer of Bugulma. Employing humor and exaggeration, Hašek demonstrates the zealotry of the revolutionary period as well as the stupidity and simple human insecurity of authoritarians. The collection of short stories, Behind the Lines, also includes other sketches by Hašek, written at the same time.
Author : Jaroslav Hašek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140035681
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War written by Jaroslav Hašek and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jaroslav Hašek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780690001235
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War written by Jaroslav Hašek and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic interpretations of legends taken from the folklore of many different peoples concerning the constellations.
Author : Jaroslav Hašek
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780140449914
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (499 download)
Download or read book The Good Soldier Svejk written by Jaroslav Hašek and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Good Soldier Svejk, celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I—although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle. Cecil Parrott's vibrant translation conveys the brilliant irreverence of this classic about a hapless Everyman caught in a vast bureaucratic machine. “Brilliant . . . Perhaps the funniest novel ever written.” —George Monbiot
Author : Eva Hoffman
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586485245
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Shtetl written by Eva Hoffman and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Braƒsk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistence--still relevant to us today-- attempted in the eight centuries of Polish-Jewish history, and describes the forces which influenced Christian villagers' decisions to conceal or betray their Jewish neighbors in the dark period of the Holocaust.
Author : Louis Barthas
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030020695X
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Poilu written by Louis Barthas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exceptionally vivid memoir of a French soldier’s experience of the First World War.”—Max Hastings, New York Times bestselling author Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. First published in France in 1978, this excellent new translation brings Barthas’ wartime writings to English-language readers for the first time. His notebooks and letters represent the quintessential memoir of a “poilu,” or “hairy one,” as the untidy, unshaven French infantryman of the fighting trenches was familiarly known. Upon Barthas’ return home in 1919, he painstakingly transcribed his day-to-day writings into nineteen notebooks, preserving not only his own story but also the larger story of the unnumbered soldiers who never returned. Recounting bloody battles and endless exhaustion, the deaths of comrades, the infuriating incompetence and tyranny of his own officers, Barthas also describes spontaneous acts of camaraderie between French poilus and their German foes in trenches just a few paces apart. An eloquent witness and keen observer, Barthas takes his readers directly into the heart of the Great War. “This is clearly one of the most readable and indispensable accounts of the death of the glory of war.”—The Daily Beast (“Hot Reads”)
Author : Jan Neruda
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633864658
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Prague Tales written by Jan Neruda and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, bittersweet 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 nineteenth-century realist, the Charles Dickens of a Prague becoming ever more aware of itself as a Czech rather than an Austrian city. Prague Tales is a classic by a writer whose influence has been acknowledged by generations of Czech writers, including Ivan Klíma, who contributes an introduction to this new translation.
Author : C. V. Wedgwood
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681371235
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The Thirty Years War written by C. V. Wedgwood and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.
Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Catbird Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945774075
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Toward the Radical Center written by Karel Čapek and published by Catbird Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capek's best plays, stories, and columns take us from the social contributions of clumsy people to dramatic meditations on mortality and commitment. The Reader includes a new and, at last, complete English translation of R.U.R., the play that introduced the literary robot.
Author : Jaroslav Hasêk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780069004669
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War written by Jaroslav Hasêk and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bohumil Hrabal
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810112780
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Closely Watched Trains written by Bohumil Hrabal and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most beloved and accessible works. Closely Watched Trains is the subtle and poetic portrait of Milos Hrma, a timid young railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. Day after day as he watches trains fly by, he torments himself with the suspicion that he himself is being watched and with fears of impotency. Hrma finally affirms his manhood and, with a sense of peace and purpose he has never known before, heroically confronts a trainload of Nazis.
