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Czech literature

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Works

• The Grandmother (1851), by Božena Němcová, translated by Frances Gregor (1891)
• The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart (1631, enlarged 1663) by Johan Amos Comenius, translated by František Lützow (1901)
• Magdalen (1893), by J. V. Machar, translated by Leo Wiener (1916)

Short stories and tales

• Czech Folk Tales (1917), edited and translated by Josef Baudiš
• Czechoslovak Stories (1920), edited and translated by Šárka B. Hrbková
• The Disobedient Kids and other Czecho-Slovak fairy tales (1921) by Božena Němcová, translated by William H. Tolman and Václav Smetánka

Short stories and tales published in more general anthologies or in magazines

• retold folk tales in the anthology Slavonic Fairy Tales (1874), edited and translated by John T. Naaké:
  • Lidushka and the Water Demon's Wife by Matěj Mikšíček
  • Golden Hair by Karel Jaromír Erben
  • Yanechek and the Water Demon by Josef Kajetán Tyl
  • The Wise Judgment by Josef Košín z Radostova
  • The Long-desired Child by Karel Jaromír Erben
  • The Wicked Wood-Fays by Karel Jaromír Erben
  • Wisdom and Fortune by Karel Jaromír Erben
  • The Brownie, or House Spirit by Karel Jaromír Erben
• short stories in Poet Lore
  • Under a Bush of Lilacs by Jakub Arbes
• short stories in The International
  • Phenicia's Sin by Julius Zeyer, translated by Frances Gregor (1896)
  • A Pawned Character, by Svatopluk Čech, translated by Rose M. Humpal (1896)
• short stories in The Czechoslovak Review (The Bohemian Review) (1917–1924), edited by Jaroslav František Smetánka
  • The Diary of a Reporter by Jan Neruda, translated by Guido Bruno (1917)
  • Foltýn's Drum by Svatopluk Čech, translated by John Hulla (1919)
• short stories in the anthology Short Stories from the Balkans (1919), edited and translated by Edna W. Underwood:
  • Brother Cœlestin by Jaroslav Vrchlický
  • The Journey by Svatopluk Čech
  • All Souls' Day by Jan Neruda
  • Foolish Jona by Jan Neruda
• short stories in Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse (1919), edited and translated by Paul Selver
  • Sonia by Josef Svatopluk Machar
  • The Vampire by Jan Neruda
  • The Advent of Spring in the South⁠ by Arne Novák
• The Imprint by Karel Čapek (in The Best Continental Short Stories of 1923-1924, edited by Richard Eaton)

Plays

• Petr Vok Rozmberk (1880) by František Adolf Šubert, translated by Beatrice M. Měkota
• At the Chasm (1887) by Jaroslav Vrchlický, translated by Charles Recht
• Jan Výrava (1886) by František Adolf Šubert, translated by Šárka B. Hrbková
• The Four Bare Walls (1893) by František Adolf Šubert, translated by Beatrice M. Mekota and Francis Haffkine Snow
• The Will o' the Wisp (1896) by Jaroslav Kvapil, translated by Šárka B. Hrbková
• Dobromila Rettig (1900) by Alois Jirásek, translated by Bernice Heřman and George Rapall Noyes
• The Clouds (1903) by Jaroslav Kvapil, translated by Charles Recht
• June (1905) by Fráňa Šrámek, translated by Paul Selver
• R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1921) by Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver
• 'And so ad infinitum' (The Life of the Insects) (1922) by Brothers Čapek, translated by Paul Selver

Poetry

• Cheskian Anthology (1832), edited and translated by John Bowring
• Bohemian legends and other poems (1896), edited and translated by Flora Pauline Wilson Kopta
• An Anthology of Modern Bohemian Poetry (1912), edited and translated by Paul Selver
• Songs of the Slav (1919), edited and translated by Otto Kotouč
• Modern Czech Poetry (1920), edited and translated by Paul Selver
• Evening Songs (1920), by Vítězslav Hálek, translated by Josef Štýbr
• Poems of Czech authors in Poet Lore:
  • Evening Songs, in vol. 27, no. 6 (1916) by Vítězslav Hálek
  • On Golgotha, in vol. 28, no. 4 (1917) by Josef Svatopluk Machar
• Poems of Czech authors in Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse (1919)
• Poems of Czech authors in The Czechoslovak Review (1917–1924):
  • Where have I heard? by Otokar Březina
  • Nature by Otokar Březina
  • Springtime fancies by Svatopluk Čech
  • The grave in the forest by Svatopluk Čech
  • Spectre's Bride by Karel Jaromír Erben
  • Parallel by Ferdinand Písecký

Librettos and lyrics

• Ye Soldiers of our God (Ktož jsú boží bojovníci, 15th century) by Jan Čapek
• Kde domov můj (1834) by Josef Kajetán Tyl
• The Bartered Bride (1866), Karel Sabina's libretto of the opera by Bedřich Smetana

Non-fiction

• Letters of Jan Hus, (1408–1415, multiple editions)
• School of Infancy (1632) by Johan Amos Comenius
• The Last Will and Testament of the Dying Mother The Unity of Brethern (1650) by Johan Amos Comenius, translated by Wikisource
• Seven Years in South Africa by Emil Holub (1881)
• The Jail (1918), by J. V. Machar, translated by Paul Selver (1921)
• Diary of a Prisoner in World War I (2012), by Josef Šrámek, translated by Tomáš Svoboda

Works on Czech literature

• "Czech literature," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "The Language and Literature of Bohemia" by Cyrill Spal in Bohemian Section at the Austrian Exhibition, Earl's Court London 1906
• "Modern Bohemian Poetry" by Paul Selver in An Anthology of Modern Bohemian Poetry (1912)
• "Czech Literature," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "The language and literature of Bohemia" by Cyrill Spal in Bohemia's claim for freedom (1915)

See also

• Portal:Czech lands