I served the King of England
Hrabal, Bohumil (, 1914-1997)
I served the King of England / Bohumil Hrabal ; translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson - First New Directions Paperbook edition - New York : New Directions , 2007, c1971 - 241 p. ; 21 cm. - New Directions paperbook ; 1067 . - A New Directions classic .
"First published in hardcover by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1989"--T.p. verso.
In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th-century Czechoslovakia.
9780811216876
2007001145
Czechoslovakia----History----Fiction
Picaresque literature
PG5039.18.R2 / O2713 2007
FIC HRA
I served the King of England / Bohumil Hrabal ; translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson - First New Directions Paperbook edition - New York : New Directions , 2007, c1971 - 241 p. ; 21 cm. - New Directions paperbook ; 1067 . - A New Directions classic .
"First published in hardcover by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1989"--T.p. verso.
In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th-century Czechoslovakia.
9780811216876
2007001145
Czechoslovakia----History----Fiction
Picaresque literature
PG5039.18.R2 / O2713 2007
FIC HRA
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