Malá Strana Stories: A Week In A Quiet House
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Nestled in the cobblestoned heart of nineteenth-century Prague, Malá Strana Stories is a masterwork of Czech literature that chronicles the vivid, tragicomic lives of the inhabitants of the Lesser Town district — a labyrinth of crumbling baroque facades, gossiping neighbours, and quietly desperate souls. Jan Neruda, the towering figure of Czech realism, presents a gallery of unforgettable characters — landlords, students, eccentrics, and dreamers — whose small dramas resonate with an aching universality. The included story, A Week in a Quiet House, illustrates with wry precision the suffocating rhythms of bourgeois life, where every creak of the floorboards carries the weight of unspoken longing. Neruda's prose is a masterclass in understated irony, suffused with a melancholic warmth that recalls Gogol and Chekhov while remaining unmistakably rooted in the Bohemian spirit. His sketches of Lesser Town life stand as both a loving portrait of a vanished Prague and a sharp social commentary on the hypocrisies of the era. First published in 1878, this collection remains a cornerstone of Central European literature — and a reader who steps into Neruda's Malá Strana may find it remarkably difficult to leave.
Author: Jan Neruda
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Nestled in the cobblestoned heart of nineteenth-century Prague, Malá Strana Stories is a masterwork of Czech literature that chronicles the vivid, tragicomic lives of the inhabitants of the Lesser Town district — a labyrinth of crumbling baroque facades, gossiping neighbours, and quietly desperate souls. Jan Neruda, the towering figure of Czech realism, presents a gallery of unforgettable characters — landlords, students, eccentrics, and dreamers — whose small dramas resonate with an aching universality. The included story, A Week in a Quiet House, illustrates with wry precision the suffocating rhythms of bourgeois life, where every creak of the floorboards carries the weight of unspoken longing. Neruda's prose is a masterclass in understated irony, suffused with a melancholic warmth that recalls Gogol and Chekhov while remaining unmistakably rooted in the Bohemian spirit. His sketches of Lesser Town life stand as both a loving portrait of a vanished Prague and a sharp social commentary on the hypocrisies of the era. First published in 1878, this collection remains a cornerstone of Central European literature — and a reader who steps into Neruda's Malá Strana may find it remarkably difficult to leave.