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14 Czech classics with bilingual reading.

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Summer of Caprice

Vladislav Vančura

A lyrical novella about a small Czech spa town, Krokovy Vary, where three friends — the bathing-master Antonín Důra, the abbé Roch, and Major Hugo — spend their capricious summer days. Their peaceful routine is disturbed by the arrival of a magician and his companion. Vančura's language is the high point of Czech modernist prose.

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