17 Best classics books like Krakatit by Karel Čapek

Krakatit

By: Karel Čapek

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Krakatit is a novel on the risks about the abuse of science for human gain. The hero is a chemist M…

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Cover of Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal, Josef Škvorecký, Edith Pargeter

1. 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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  • classics
  • school
  • czech literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"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

Cover of Kytice by Karel Jaromír Erben

2. Kytice

By: Karel Jaromír Erben

3.96

Format: 162 pages,

Sbírka baladických básní K. J. Erbena právem patří mezi klasická díla české literatury. Nejznámější… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • czech literature
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Mysterious Portrait by Nikolai Gogol

3. The Mysterious Portrait

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.04

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Nikolai Gogol's "The Portrait" is a short story about art. First written in 1835 and then significa… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal, Paul Wilson

4. I Served the King of England

By: Bohumil Hrabal , Paul Wilson

3.43

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-W… read more

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  • fiction
  • novels
  • classics
  • czech literature
Cover of Noc na Karlštejně by Vladimír Vimr, Jaroslav Vrchlický

5. 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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  • czech literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school

6. Krakatit

By: Karel Čapek

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Krakatit is a novel on the risks about the abuse of science for human gain. The hero is a chemist M… read more

Similar categories in Karel Čapek's Krakatit book and Karel Čapek's Krakatit

  • classics
  • school
  • czech literature
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
Cover of Markéta Lazarová by Vladislav Vančura, Václav Sivko

7. Markéta Lazarová

By: Vladislav Vančura , Václav Sivko

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Hardcover

Klasicky roman Vladislava Vancury prinasi pribeh o ciste dusi a ciste lasce uprostred chladneho a n… read more

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  • czech literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
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8. Audience

By: Václav Havel

2.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

Forming part of the Vanek Plays trilogy, Audience is a cleverly-constructed satire on power and tho… read more

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  • czech literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
Cover of Spalovač mrtvol by Ladislav Fuks

9. 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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  • czech literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"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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10. Krysař

By: Viktor Dyk

3.69

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

Útlá knížka, jejímž jádrem je staroněmecká pověst, je vrcholem autorova prozaického díla, jakousi r… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • czech literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"Srdce jest drobná a zcela zbytečná věc."

-Viktor Dyk, Krysař

"Nebylo třeba pomoci boží; pomohu si sám."

-Viktor Dyk, Krysař

"Mějte ženy, ale nedopouštějte, aby ženy měly vás."

-Viktor Dyk, Krysař

"Nejmenuji se; jsem nikdo. Jsem hůř než nikdo, jsem krysař."

-Viktor Dyk, Krysař

Cover of Rozmarné léto by Vladislav Vančura

11. Rozmarné léto

By: Vladislav Vančura

3.71

Format: 272 pages,

Klasicke dilo ceske literatury. Banalni historky trech panu, nudicich se v desti, zmenila kvetnata … read more

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  • czech literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
Cover of Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland, Andrew Moore, None

12. Pierre and Luce

By: Romain Rolland , Andrew Moore , None

3.59

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Paris, 1918: Amidst the cries of fanatic patriots bent on war, a tender relationship slowly develop… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school

13. Kuře melancholik

By: Josef Karel Šlejhar

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Novela z vesnickeho prostredi o utrpeni maleho ditete je pozoruhodnou ukazkou z tvorby vudciho pred… read more

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14. 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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Cover of Báječná léta pod psa by Michal Viewegh

15. Báječná léta pod psa

By: Michal Viewegh

3.78

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Czech read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • czech literature
  • fiction
  • novels

16. Hrdý Budžes

By: Irena Dousková

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Prvnimi roky husakovske normalizace, tak jak se v rade komickych i mene veselych prihod a situaci p… read more

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Cover of Smrt krásných srnců by Ota Pavel

17. Smrt krásných srnců

By: Ota Pavel

4.12

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

Smrt krásných srnců je kniha sedmi povídek, ve kterých spisovatel Ota Pavel vzpomíná na šťastné dět… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • czech literature
  • fiction
  • novels

18. Stín kapradiny

By: Josef Čapek

4.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Baladicka proza o pronasledovani dvou pytlaku-vrahu hajneho v hlubokych lesich, kteri stvani svedom… read more

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Cover of May by Marcela Sulak, Karel Hynek Mácha, None

19. May

By: Marcela Sulak , Karel Hynek Mácha , None

3.42

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

Often compared to Byron, Keats, Shelley, and Poe, called Lautreamont's "elder brother" by the Czech… read more

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  • czech literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"Time yet to come? Tomorrow's day? Still, still some dream will time repay, Or sleep too deep for dreaming? Perhaps this life which here I live Is but a sleep, and dawn will give Only another seeming?…"

-Marcela Sulak, May

Cover of Edison by Vítězslav Nezval

20. Edison

By: Vítězslav Nezval

3.57

Format: 56 pages, None

Básně o pěti zpěvech. Skladbu Edison napsal Nezval rozlehlým šestistopým trochejem a osobitým způs… read more

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  • czech literature
  • classics
  • school

16 must-read fiction books like Krakatit by Karel Čapek

Transform Your Habits

Closely Watched Trains

Bohumil Hrabal , Josef Škvorecký , Edith Pargeter

3.74

None

Bohumil Hrabal , Michael Henry Heim

None

Transform Your Habits

Kytice

Karel Jaromír Erben

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Mysterious Portrait

Nikolai Gogol

4.04

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16 Best fiction books like Noc na Karlštejně by Vladimír Vimr, Jaroslav Vrchlický

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

Bílá nemoc

Karel Čapek , Michael Henry Heim

4.23

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