maturita-yet to be read

Einer nach dem anderen beginnen die Jungen zu fallen … 1914 wird eine Klasse deutscher Schüler, frischgesichtig und idealistisch, von ihrem Lehrer dazu gedrängt, in den „glorreichen Krieg“ zu ziehen. Mit dem Feuer und Patriotismus der Jugend melden sie sich freiwillig. Was folgt, ist die bewegende Geschichte eines jungen „unbekannten Soldaten“, der den Schrecken und die Ernüchterung des Lebens in den Schützengräben erlebt.

Condemned and banned for five years in Molière’s day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe worms his way into Orgon’s household, blinding the master of the house with his religious "devotion," and almost succeeds in his attempts to seduce his wife and disinherit his children before the final unmasking.

Erben compiled and wrote A Bouquet based on his studies of Slavic folktales and folk songs. First published in 1853, it is dotted with murder and mayhem : graves opening and the dead walking the earth, the animate becoming the inanimate and vice versa, ogres and monsters of lake and wood, human transformations reminiscent of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Written as ballads, Marcela Sulak's new translation perfectly captures the cadence and rhythm in an English that is fresh and energetic. Through the years A Bouquet has come to be regarded as a masterpiece and wellspring of inspiration to artists of all stripes, including Antonín Dvořák, who composed a series of symphonic poems to some of these tales. Of the many illustrators who have contributed to the various editions that have appeared over the past century and a half, Alén Diviš's artwork is generally considered the most powerful. This edition also includes Erben's own notes explaining the origins of many of these tales.

Polish

Irská lidová pověst o králi s tajemstvím. Králův holič Kukulín nesmí nikomu prozradit co při holení vídá na jeho hlavě. Toto tajemství řekne vrbě. Muzikant Červíček si udělá z vrby kolíček k base. Basa na bále vše prozradí a král již nemusí před lidem dál skrývat pod vlasy to, co už všichni od Červíkovské basy slyšeli.