A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'.

Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting.

Presents a terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. This book is a vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes.

This is the first novel by the author of Immortality , which won The Independent Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the author of The Book of Laughter and Fogetting .

Hasek's most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army. Dsmissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I.

A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include The Joke , The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being . He has written one play, Jacques and his Master .

'The Metamorphosis' is one of the most remarkable stories ever written. Kafka's surrealistic approach shocks us into a new apppreciation of a basic truth: when we have outlived our usefulness there are no longer any certainties.

This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting .

Helps your child learn about castles. This title contains a guide, giant wallchart, interactive clip-art CD and a website. From why round towers are better than square ones to how a castle was defended from attack, it lets your child visit the exciting world of a medieval fortress.

A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this early novel.

Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis.

A novel by the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being . A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality.

A brilliant Kafka-esque novel about one man's resistance to a totalitarian regime (Czechoslovakia).

Presents the story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.

A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history?

A story of how the unbelievable came true, this book is about Ditie, a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion to the victory of Communism.

Czech is closely related to the other members of the Slavic family of languages but, unlike Russian, uses the Roman alphabet. This title features a course that offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Czech.

An inspiration to writers such as Orwell and Vonnegut, this is one of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century and is now regarded as a modern classic.

A collection of all Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches, to longer, complete tales. Together, they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the depth of his thought. Some, like The Metamorphosis and The Judgement , are well-known; others are mere jottings.

Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father and so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed.