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Good Soldier Svejk & His Fortu by Jaroslav Hasek
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Hasek's most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army -- dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I (where he is captured by his own troops). A mischief-maker, bohemian and drunk, Hase ...Show more
The Good Soldier Svejk (Penguin Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Jaroslav Hasek's black satire, the inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller's Catch-22 Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve ...Show more
The Good Soldier Svejk (Penguin pocket classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
Category: Classic | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Listen, Švejk, are you really God's prize oaf?''Humbly report, sir,' Švejk answered solemnly. 'I am!' The chaotic, hilarious adventures of an ordinary soldier, who is either genuinely a total idiot or a genius pretending to be one - perhaps the greatest book to come out of the First World War, as Švej ...Show more
The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek
Category: Classic | Series: Everyman's Library Classics S.
Set in the Central Europe of old, this anti-war novel features a simple soldier whose determination to survive brings into question the powerful social and political institutions he confronts. A portrait of a "little man" waging his own war against authority, it becomes a satire on the old regime.
The Red Commissar - Including Further Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk and Other Stories by Jaroslav HaSek; Cecil Parrott (Translator)
Category: Classics
Jaroslav Hasek is best known for his satirical masterpiece The Good Soldier Svejk. That has been described as 'Perhaps the funniest novel ever written.' Although his life was short and chaotic, Hasek did however write more as this volume tellingly reveals. In his preface, Cecil Parrott, translator and b ...Show more
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