27 records matched your query       

Author:

Hašek, Jaroslav, 1883-1923.

Title:

The good soldier Švejk / Jaroslav Hašek ; translated with an introduction by Cecil Parrott.

Publisher:

Penguin,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

784 pages ; 20 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
Soldiers--Czechoslovakia--Fiction.
War fiction.
Picaresque literature.

Other Authors:

Parrott, Cecil, 1909-1984.

Notes:

This translation originally published: London: Heinemann, 1973.

Summary:

Good-natured and garrulous, ?vejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.

ISBN:

9780140449914
0140449914

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57527848

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)