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A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please," asks the stranger, "draw me a sheep." And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil and paper... And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed forever the world for its readers. Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince, presented here in a stunning new translation with carefully restored artwork. The definitive edition of a worldwide classic, it will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.

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.

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.

Název elegie (tj. nářek, žalozpěv) je ironickou nadsázkou; dílo je humorným a satirickým popisem Havlíčkova zatčení a internace v Brixenu v Tyrolsku. Kritizuje policii, společenský systém (nenavrhuje lepší). Používá skutečných jmen a příhod (např. příhoda o zatčení, kdy se splašili koně, a Havlíček sám je musel krotit). Skládá se z devíti zpěvů. Objevují se zde satirické, lyrické a ironické prvky. Celé dílo je psáno v pravidelných rýmovaných čtyřverších.

Klasické české drama z vesnického prostředí. Maryša je jedním z klenotů české divadelní tvorby. Neustále přitahuje významné inscenátory a její inscenace patří velmi často mezi pozoruhodné divadelní počiny. Mimochodem patří mezi nejpřekládanější česká dramata a nezřídka se objevuje i na zahraničních scénách. Dnes její hodnoty dokážeme ocenit snad ještě více, než v době jejího vzniku.