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Eyewitness Guide Prague
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 264 PAGES
This superb guide to Prague features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the celebrated city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(CZH01, $23.00)
Insight Guide Austria
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 351 PAGES
A volume in the award-winning Insight series, this guide is noted for its wonderful photography, superb production and informative short essays. It is a highly recommended introduction to Austrian history and culture -- as well as a good overview of popular destinations.
(AST29, $23.95)
Prague, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Paul Wilson
ANTHOLOGY 1996 PAPER 256 PAGES
Designed with the traveler in mind, this anthology of 24 vivid stories by Prague writers, contemporary and well known, brings the city of Prague to life. The stories and essays -- covering cultural life, society and love -- are organized geographically by district. With a helpful map of Prague, this book is an unusual literary guide to the city.
(CZH08, $14.95)
Mozart
Peter Gay
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2006 PAPER 192 PAGES
In this compact book, historian and biographer Peter Gay paints a portrait of the musical genius based on factual details rather than long-established myths. He delves into Mozart's complex relationship with his father, the daunting role of being born a child prodigy, and his exploration of new musical territory, particularly opera. A volume in the excellent "Penguin Lives" series.
(AST43, $13.00)
Czech and Slovak Republics Map
Freytag & Berndt
2006 MAP
A detailed, fully indexed map to the Czech and Slovak Republics at a scale of 1:400,000. It is also the most detailed map available of the route of the Danube between Regensburg and Budapest. Published in Austria.
(EUR35, $12.95)
Eyewitness Guide Vienna
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This superb guide to Vienna features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions.
(AST01, $23.00)
A Nervous Splendor, Vienna 1888-1889
Frederic Morton
HISTORY
A portrait of Vienna at the end of the 19th century, this book focuses on Crown Prince Rudolph, his devastating suicide and the rich texture of gossip and daily life at the Habsburg court. It captures the political ferment, intellectual creativity, gaiety and despair of fin-de-siecle Austria.
(AST16, $16.00)
Bury Me Standing
Isabel Fonseca
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This marvelous portrait of the Roma, also known as the Gypsies, offers insight into their music, foods, religions, folk traditions, and examines their influential but complex relationship with Eastern Europe.
(EUR09, $14.95)
Danube
Claudio Magris
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
COMING IN OCTOBER
A new edition of the gifted novelist's classic account of a Danube journey from its source in the heart of what once was the Austro-Hungarian Empire through the Balkans to the Black Sea. The book is an intellectually charged, evocative portrait of the places and personalities of Central Europe.
(EUR58, $16.00)
Prague in Black and Gold, Scenes From Life in a European City
Peter Demetz
HISTORY
In this anecdotal study the author traces the history and culture of 4,000-year-old Prague in rich detail. Intimately familiar with the physical city, the book is also a personable guide to its neighborhoods and architecture.
(CZH09, $16.00)
The Coasts of Bohemia, A Czech History
Derek Sayer
HISTORY
A political and cultural history of the Czech people, this intriguing book places the historically important Bohemia and Moravia at the center of European events. The author draws on literature, the arts, culture and politics to evoke Czech history, society and identity.
(CZH10, $29.95)
The Habsburgs, Embodying Empire
Andrew Wheatcroft
HISTORY
The Habsburgs ruled over more diverse peoples and cultures than any other European dynasty since the Roman period. In this book, Wheatcroft's skillful scholarship and engaging style fully reveal the history of this family and its eccentric monarchs.
(AST11, $17.00)
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Fermor effortlessly interweaves anecdote, history and culture in this exuberant account of a walk from Holland, up the Rhine and down the Danube in 1933, including adventures in Germany, Prague and Austria. He writes not as the young adventurer but as the accomplished author 40 years later, with perspective and a sweet nostalgia. The adventure continues in Between the Woods and Water (CEU31).
(CEU30, $16.95)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
LITERATURE
Kundera strings together loosely related short stories to form an original and entertaining look at Czech culture.
(CZH17, $13.95)
The Complete Stories
Franz Kafka
LITERATURE
All of Kafka's stories, including The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, and In The Penal Colony.
(CZH47, $15.00)
The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth
Joachim Neugroschel
LITERATURE
This is perhaps the best-known and best-loved novel of the Habsburg Empire. First published in 1932, it spins a tale of three generations of the Trotta family, set against the waning days of the empire.
(AST17, $16.95)
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol
Graham Greene
LITERATURE
A haunting tale and penetrating portrait of Vienna after World War II, "The Third Man" is the result of Greene's collaboration with Carol Reed on the classic movie. "The Fallen Idol" is a separate tale of intrigue set in Britain.
(AST30, $13.00)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
LITERATURE
Kundera's intriguing novel, praised for its meditations on the nature of men and women, and the fearful emptiness of life in Prague under Communist rule.
(CZH16, $13.95)
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