Old Czech Legends
- ISBN-10
- 1856100200
- ISBN-13
- 9781856100205
- Pages
- 199
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Forest Books
- Author
- Alois Jirásek
Description
Written in the early 1890s, before Czech independence and in an age of patriotic upsurge and romanticism, these thirty-four tales quite naturally reflect a glorification of the Czech past. While the details of the legends are necessarily archaic, peopled by kings and noblemen, ghosts and magic, the themes are universal. Now at the dawn of a new era of Czech independence, they provide a fascinating new perspective to the contemporary situation.
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