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The Good Soldier Švejk
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The Good Soldier Švejk (collective work) (edit title/settings)

And His Fortunes in the World War

by Jaroslav Hašek (Author) (edit contributors)

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In "The Good Soldier Švejk," celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hašek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war. Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austrian army’s most loyal Czech soldier when he is... read more

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  1. The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War, Book One

    The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War, Book One

    by Jaroslav Hašek (Author), Zdeněk "Zenny" K. Sadlon (Translator)

    Some writers so capture the soul and spirit of a people that they are identified with them forever after. In England, it was Charles Dickens, in the United States, it was Mark Twain. For the Slavic nations, and to some extent for all Central...

  2. The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War, Book Two

    The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War, Book Two

    by Jaroslav Hašek (Author)

    In Book One of The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War Jaroslav Hasek wrote about the familiar world he lived in and wrote about his whole life before the onset of the "War to End All Wars". Book One introduces...

  3. The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War, Book(s) Three & Four

    The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War, Book(s) Three & Four

    by Jaroslav Hašek (Author)

    This is the last volume of the The Fateful Adventures Of The Good Soldier Svejk During The World War containing Book Three and Book Four. Jaroslav Hasek planned to write six books but passed away before completing Book Four. That is why the...

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  • Austro-Hungarian Empire: The Dual Monarchy of Austria & Hungary enthusiastically marching off to war, defeat & dissolution. RIP.

First Sentence edit see section history

"And so they've killed our Ferdinand," said the charwoman to Mr. Švejk, who had left military service years before, after having been finally certified by an army medical board as an imbecile, and now lived by selling dogs -- ugly, mongrel monstrosities whose pedigrees he forged.

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Introduction by Cecil Parrott

Guide to the Pronunciation of Czech Names

Maps

Austro-Hungarian Currency

I. Part I: Behind the Lines
Preface
1. The Good Soldier Švejk Intervenes in the Great War
2. The Good Soldier Švejk at Police Headquarters
3. Švejk before the Medical Experts
4. Švejk Thrown out of the Lunatic Asylum
5. Švejk at the Police Station in Salmova Street
6. Švejk Home Again after having Broken through the Vicious Circle
7. Švejk Goes to the War
8. Švejk the Malingerer
9. Švejk in the Garrison Gaol
10. Švejk Batman to the Chaplain
11. Švejk Goes with the Chaplain to Celebrate a Drumhead Mass
12. A Religious Debate
13. Švejk Administers Extreme Unction
14. Švejk Batman to Lieutenant Lukáš
15. Catastrophe
Epilogue to Part I

II. Part II: At the Front
16. Švejk's Misadventures in the Train
17. Švejk's Budějovice Anabasis
18. Švejk's Adventures in Királyhida
19. New Sufferings
20. From Bruck an der Leitha to Sokal

III. Part III: The Glorious Licking
21. Across Hungary
22. In Budapest
23. From Hatvan towards the Galician Frontier
24. Forward March!

IV. Part IV: The Glorious Licking Continued
25. Švejk in a Transport of Russian Prisoners
26. Spiritual Consolation
27. Švejk back in his March Company

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 692 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Blindness, and followed by The Plumed Serpent.

This is book 8 of 19 in Livros de Bolso Europa-América. (edition-based publisher list)

Preceded by To a God Unknown.

This is book 96 of 91 in The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time, 2004. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Woman in White, and followed by Dracula.

This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This is book 30 of 29 in Biblioteka XX. stoljeće (Jutarnji list). (edition-based publisher list)

Preceded by To the Lighthouse.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Jaroslav Hašek (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: Czech
Publisher: A. Synek Publishers
Country: Czechoslovakia
Publication Date: 1923
ISBN: N/A
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  • Library of Congress: PZ3.H2693 Go18
  • Dewey: 891.8635

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