Prague Tales

Prague Tales

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.

  • Cover
  • Front matter
  • Untitled
  • Series title page
  • Title page
  • copyright page
  • Contents
  • Introduction by Ivan Klíma
  • A Week in a Quiet House
    • I In Night Clothes
    • II Most of the House Begins to Stir
    • III At Home with the Landlord
    • IV A Lyrical Monologue
    • V Bachelorhood is Bliss
    • VI A Manuscript and a Storm Cloud
    • VII Fragments from the Notes of a Scrivener
    • VIII At the Funeral
    • IX Further Proof of the Pudding
    • X In a Moment of Agitation
    • XI A First Attempt at Fiction
    • XII Five Minutes after the Recital
    • XIII After the Draw
    • XIV A Happy Family
    • XV The Week Draws to a Close
  • Mr Ryšánek and Mr Schlegel
  • A Beggar Brought to Ruin
  • The Tender Heart of Mrs Rus
  • Evening Chitchat
  • Doctor Spoiler
  • The Water Sprite
  • How Mr Vorel Broke in His Meerschaum
  • The Three Lilies
  • The St Wenceslas Mass
  • How It Came to Pass
  • Written This Year on All Souls’ Day
  • Figures
  • Notes
  • Back cover

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