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The Good Soldier Svejk

Hasek, JaroslavLada, Josef(Illustrated by)Parrott, Cecil(Translated by)
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Hasek's most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army -- dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I (where he is captured by his own troops).

A mischief-maker, bohemian and drunk, Hasek demonstrated his wit in this classic novel of the Czech character and preposterous nature of war.

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Penguin Classics
0140449914 / 9780140449914
Paperback / softback
28/04/2005
United Kingdom
English
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xxii, 752 p. : ill., maps
20 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: London: William Heinemann, 1973.