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Description edit
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 that world to those who are not familiar with it. For... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Lukáš: Senior Lieutenant
- Josef Švejk: The Good Soldier
- Mister Purkrábek: a representative of the Slávie Bank
- Major General von Schwarzburg: conducting an inspection trip in civilian clothes
- Jungwirt: switch operator
- Zeman: a brewer in Zdolbunov in the Ukraine
- Josef Bong: a poster boy military transport driver
- Corporal Palánek: at the Tábor train station
- Toníček Mašků: Home Army deserter
- master Melichárek: from the Dolejší Street behind the little Florian shrine in the wall in Radomyšl
- Flanderka: State Police Station Chief in Putim
- Joey Jump: village herdsman in Putim
- old Stroll Procházka: Emperor Franz Josef I
- Pejzlerka the hag: Putim State Police Station cleaning woman and gofer
- Colonel Schröder: Commanding Officer of the 91st Infantry Regiment
- Konrád Dauerling: Warrant Officer at the 11th Company believed the proper means for dealing with soldiers was horrifying terror
- Captain Ságner: charged with taking care of the one-year volunteer school
- Marek: one-year volunteer whom Švejk met in the hunger pit of the Regimental Brig at the Marian garrison in České Budějovice
- Father Lacina: Chief Field Chaplain of the 7th Cavalry Division
- Hájek: Marek's pal who introduced him to Mr. Fuchs
- Mister Fuchs: owner of the Animal World magazine
- Brehm: author of the Brehm Animal Encyclopedia
- Reserve Officer Doctor Mráz <Frost>: commander of the military train
- Vaněk: Add a description of this character.
- Vodička
- Fuchs
- Baloun
- Wenzl
- Lacina
- Mister Kákonyi
- Zítko
- Schreiter
- Mikulášek
- Josef
- Ferdinand
Setting & Locations edit
- Prague
- Vienna
- České Budějovice
- Királihyda
- Serbia
- Russia
- Austria
- Galicia
- Protivín
- Putim
- Belgrade
- Vodňany
- Kladno
First Sentence edit
There were three of them in a second class compartment of the Prague-České Budějovice express: Senior Lieutenant Lukáš, across from whom was sitting an older gentleman, totally bald, and Švejk, who was standing modestly by the door leading to the passageway and was just getting ready to hear the full measure of a new rolling wave of raging thunder of abuse by Senior Lieutenant Lukáš who, disregarding the presence of the baldheaded civilian, had been roaring along the whole length of the railroad line they have journeyed thus far to coax Švejk’s soul into reforming, telling him that he’s God’s filthy cattle and the like.
Table of Contents edit
Book Two
AT THE FRONT
1. ŠVEJK’S MISHAPS ON THE TRAIN
2. ŠVEJK’S BUDĚJOVICKÁ ANABASIS
3. ŠVEJK’S HAPPENINGS IN KIRÁLIHYDA
4. NEW AFFLICTIONS
5. FROM BRUCK ON THE LEITHA TOWARD SOKAL
. . Endnotes
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jaroslav Hašek (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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