10 must-read czech literature books like Protest by Václav Havel

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Protest

By: Václav Havel

3.82

Format: 21 pages, None

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1. Heart of a Dog

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more

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"A dog's spirit dies hard."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

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2. The Threepenny Opera

By: Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , John Willett , Ralph Manheim

3.89

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his … read more

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"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two."

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"1.Tanrı: Ne biçim dünya bu? Her yanda sefalet, bayağılık, pislik! Doğayı da katletmişler.Güzelim ağaçları tellerle idam etmişler.Dağların ötesinde duman bulutlarından göz gözü görmüyor. Gök gürültüsü…"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

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3. Closely Watched Trains

By: Bohumil Hrabal , Josef Škvorecký , Edith Pargeter

3.74

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Bohumil Hrabal's post-war classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovak… read more

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"آن غرش و سر و صدای یک قطار در حال حرکت،همیشه یکسان است،درست مثل زمان صلح که قطار، هر شب، مربع‌ها و مستطیل‌های نور را از پنجره‌های درخشان خود می‌پراکند."

-Bohumil Hrabal, Closely Watched Trains

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4. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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5. Bílá nemoc

By: Karel Čapek , Michael Henry Heim

4.23

Format: 378 pages, Unknown Binding

Popudem k napsání tohoto dramatu z r. 1937 byl podle autorových slov "konflikt ideálů demokracie s … read more

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"Маршал. Так, я розбудив у ньому волю до життя. Ви вірите, що мир кращий за війну. А я вірю, що переможна війна краща за мир. І не маю права позбавляти свій народ заслуженої перемоги. Гален. І безлічі…"

-Karel Čapek, Bílá nemoc

"Proč prosím… Když mohou lidé zabíjet olovem a plynem,… nač my doktoři máme někoho zachraňovat, ne? Kdybyste věděli, co to dá někdy práce… zachránit dítě… nebo vyhojit takový kostižer… A pak se řekne …"

-Karel Čapek, Bílá nemoc

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6. Hana

By: Alena Mornštajnová

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Treti roman uspesne ceske autorky. Existuje-li neco, co proveruje opravdovost lidskeho zivota, pak … read more

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  • czech literature
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7. Maryša

By: Alois Mrštík , Vilém Mrštík , Vladimír Vimr

3.43

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Klasické české drama z vesnického prostředí. Maryša je jedním z klenotů české divadelní tvorby. Neu… read more

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  • school
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Cover of Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #3) by Andrzej Sapkowski

8. Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #3)

By: Andrzej Sapkowski

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

The New York Timesbestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher. F… read more

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9. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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10. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • school
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11. The Bacchae

By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more

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"Cleverness is not wisdom."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"He who believes needs no explanation."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"

-Euripides, The Bacchae

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12. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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13. Noc na Karlštejně

By: Vladimír Vimr , Jaroslav Vrchlický

3.65

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Oblíbená úsměvná veselohra, která se odehrává během jedné noci na hradu Karlštejn, kam císař Karel … read more

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  • plays
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14. Romeo, Julie a tma

By: Jan Otčenášek

3.93

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Novela o tragickém příběhu studenta Pavla a židovské dívky Ester v období heydrichiády. read more

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15. The Judgement

By: Franz Kafka

3.83

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

"The judgment" is considered the most autobiographical of Kafka's stories. First, there are Kafka's… read more

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16. Spalovač mrtvol

By: Ladislav Fuks

4.06

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Příběh o "spalovači mrtvol", trochu podivínském a pilném zaměstnanci pražského krematoria Karlu Kop… read more

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"Mlč a civ!"

-Ladislav Fuks, Spalovač mrtvol

"nic jiného není lidský život než bytí k smrti"

-Ladislav Fuks, Spalovač mrtvol

"*o fotfrafii* taková věčná konzerva právě přítomného času"

-Ladislav Fuks, Spalovač mrtvol

"Co kdybych tě drahá oběsil?" Usmála se na něho dolů, snad mu dobře nerozuměla, on se usmál též, kopl do židle a bylo to."

-Ladislav Fuks, Spalovač mrtvol

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17. R.U.R.

By: Karel Čapek , Nigel Playfair , Paul Selver

3.83

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot.… read more

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"Nobody can hate man more than man."

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

"nothing is stranger to man than his own image"

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

"Robot" is a machine that makes the functions of a man."

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

"A man has to be a bit mad [...]. That's the best thing about him."

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

18. Uncle Vanya

By: Anton Chekhov

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more

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19. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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20. Ubu Roi

By: Barbara Wright , Alfred Jarry , Franciszka Themerson

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Championed by Dadaists and Surrealists as the first absurdist drama, the play features a main chara… read more

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21. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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22. Woyzeck

By: Georg Büchner

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kaum ein bedeutendes Werk der deutschen Literatur ist in seiner Textfassung so problematisch wie Bu… read more

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23. The Joke

By: Milan Kundera

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its p… read more

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24. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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25. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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26. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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27. The Cherry Orchard

By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more

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28. Eugene Onegin

By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more

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  • school
"He's happy now, he's almost sane."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

29. Romance pro křídlovku

By: František Hrubín

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Romance pro kridlovku predstavuje lyrickoepicky vrchol Hrubinovy basnicke tvorby. read more

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30. A Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Te… read more

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  • literature
"I was cured all right."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"I was always on my oddy knocky."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Civilised my syphilised yarbles."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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31. Protest

By: Václav Havel

3.82

Format: 21 pages, None

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13 must-read school books like Protest by Václav Havel

Transform Your Habits

The Threepenny Opera

Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , John Willett , Ralph Manheim

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Closely Watched Trains

Bohumil Hrabal , Josef Škvorecký , Edith Pargeter

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Bílá nemoc

Karel Čapek , Michael Henry Heim

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Maryša

Alois Mrštík , Vilém Mrštík , Vladimír Vimr

3.43

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Transform Your Habits

Saturnin

Zdeněk Jirotka , Mark Adrian Corner

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Closely Watched Trains

Bohumil Hrabal , Josef Škvorecký , Edith Pargeter

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Kytice

Karel Jaromír Erben

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Maryša

Alois Mrštík , Vilém Mrštík , Vladimír Vimr

3.43

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