At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Prague'...

Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River...

For The Pied Piper, Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon lege...

A collection of seven short stories about wierd and fantastic creatures that inhabit the strange ...

Japanese novelist Ibuse Masuji (1898-1993) is best known for his 1966 novel 'Kuroi' ' Ame' (publi...

In 1922, the same year that saw the establishment of the Czechoslovak Football Association, a for...

Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read, yet incomplete ...

Written in the years 1954-57 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postw...

Summer of Caprice, a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech liter...

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a varie...

On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offeri...

A favorite work of Czech humor, We Were a Handful depicts the adventures of five boys from a smal...