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1 online resource (351 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Beletrie
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Beletrie.
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| Contents |
1 the st bernard inn; 2 a moonlit night; 3 mr methie; 4 a feral cow; 5 a grand piano rabbit hutch; 6 jumbo; 7 mazánek's wonder; 8 the snowdrop festival; 9 friends; 10 fining salami; 11 leli; 12 beatrice; 13 lucy and polly; 14 the feast; 15 ionic man; 16 hair like pivarn©k's; 17 the maid of honour; 18 adagio lamentoso; 19 an apprentice's guide to the gift of the gab; afterword; translator's notes; contents |
| Summary |
Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Ha¿Łek, Karel Capek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czech writers. Hrabal's fiction blends tragedy with humor and explores the anguish of intellectuals and ordinary people alike from a slightly surreal perspective. Rambling On is a collection of stories set in Hrabal's Kersko that depicts the hilariously absurd atmosphere of a tiny cottage community in the heart of a forest in the middle of totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Several of these stories were rejected by the Communist censors during the 1970s; this first Eng. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Kvorecký, Josef -- Translations into English.
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Clergy -- Fiction.
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Clergy. |
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Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Short, David, 1943- translator.
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Kadlec, Václav, author of afterword, colophon, etc.
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Grus, Jií, illustrator.
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Print version: Hrabal, Bohumil. Rambling on : an apprentice's guide to gift of the gab : short stories. Prague, Czech Republic : Karolinum Press, c2014 350 pages 9788024623160 |
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9788024625812 electronic book |
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8024625814 electronic book |
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9788024623160 |
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8024623161 |
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9788024623160 |
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