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Capek, Karel
by Apocryphal Tales
- Used
- Paperback
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0945774346
- ISBN 13
- 9780945774341
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About This Item
North haven. 1997. Catbird Press. 1st American Printing of This New Translation. Very Good in Wrappers. 0945774346. Translated from the Czech and with an introduction by Norma Comrada. 190 pages. paperback. Cover design by Chris Lione. keywords: Literature Czech Translated Eastern Europe. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In these tales, Karel Capek approaches great events and figures of history, myth, and literature in startling ways. Jesus's loaves-and-fishes miracle is described from the point of a view of an otherwise sympathetic baker. Townspeople argue about who's to blame for the approaching hordes of Attila the Hun. Abbots and smiths, servants and soldiers, judges and gods appear in these humorous, thought provoking, and sometimes frightening tales. This book contains all new translations, as well as some stories that have not yet appeared in English. inventory #34401 ISBN: 0945774346.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34401
- Title
- Capek, Karel
- Author
- Apocryphal Tales
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0945774346
- ISBN 13
- 9780945774341
- Publisher
- Catbird Press
- Place of Publication
- North Haven, Connecticut, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1997-04
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