Hrabal, Bohumil  (, 1914-1997) <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/> "First published in hardcover by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1989"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780811216876 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007001145 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Czechoslovakia----History----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Picaresque literature
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PG5039.18.R2  / O2713 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC HRA