CEU Press Classics
On Shaky Ground
1st Edition
By V. Domontovych
August 31, 2024
On Shaky Ground is a modernist novel written in the late 1930s and early 1940s and was originally published in Nazi occupied Kharkiv in 1942. One of the best examples of intellectual fiction of the time, the work summarizes the struggles of the Ukrainian intelligentsia in the late 1920s and early ...
Fugue: A Tale of One of Us
1st Edition
By Milutin Nehajev
December 20, 2023
Bijeg is a novel by the Croatian writer Milutin Cihlar Nehajev, here translated into English by Damir Janigro with the title Fugue. Regarded as a paramount example of Croatian literature from the Modernist era, it offers a captivating portrayal of the culture in pre-World War I Austro-Hungary. The ...
The Bombardment of Åbo: A Novella Based on a Historical Event in Modern Times
1st Edition
By Carl Spitteler, Marianna D. Birnbaum
September 30, 2022
This farcical tale tells how the British bombing of a Finnish port city changes the life of the Russian governor, his wife, their cook, and the cook's Finnish fiancé. The story takes place during a Nordic offshoot of the Crimean conflict, known as the Åland War, in which a British-French ...
The Visoko Chronicle
1st Edition
By Ivan Tavcar
December 20, 2021
This historical novel - Visoška kronika in the Slovene original - is about two generations of the owners of the Visoko estate in the Duchy of Carniola, a predominantly Slovene province of the Habsburg Empire, in the seventeenth century. The events of the estate and the fate of its owners are ...
Avala Is Falling
1st Edition
By Biljana Jovanovic
July 01, 2020
In Avala Is Falling, Jovanović’s breakout success in 1978, a young woman challenges the expectations that teachers, parents, bus drivers, and doctors have for her. The “Avala” of the title refers to a mountain south of Belgrade which is home to some of Serbia’s most ...
The House of a Thousand Floors
1st Edition
By Jan Weiss
November 15, 2016
The House of a Thousand Floors is one of the earliest science-fiction novels in European literature, published first in 1929. Besides being a pioneer in its genre, the book is highly regarded for its general merits as psychological literature. The novel tells the story of a dream in fever of a ...
The Prose of the Mountains: Three Tales of the Caucasus
1st Edition
By Aleksandre Qazbegi
July 10, 2015
The Prose of the Mountains contains three tales of the Caucasus by Aleksandre Qazbegi, one of the most prescient and gifted chroniclers of the Georgian encounter with colonial modernity. His stories offer an invaluable counterpoint to the predominantly Russian narratives that have hitherto shaped ...
Three Chestnut Horses
1st Edition
By Margita Figuli
September 01, 2014
This gem of Slovak naturalism was written in 1940. The story takes the reader to a mountain village. The protagonist narrates the vicissitudes, suffering, and success he experiences as he pursues a love affair, resulting in the triumph of pure love. Peter has been in love with a ...
A Tale of Two Worlds
1st Edition
By Vjenceslav Novak
March 10, 2014
In this novel, written by the esteemed novelist in 1901, a provincial composer and organist from Croatia struggles to find his way along the perilous frontier between the worlds of artistic vocation and humdrum family life. The local kapellmeister—-a Czech, in good Habsburg tradition, and a ...
The Tower: and other stories
1st Edition
By Jānis Ezeriņš
January 30, 2012
The Latvian Janis Ezerins's best work was created in the genre of the short story. Among his literary models were Boccaccio, Maupassant and Poe. During his active literary working life, which lasted approximately five to six years of his short life, Ezerins seemingly grasped an encyclopaedia of ...
Whitehorn's Windmill
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Novickas, Kazys Boruta
April 10, 2009
Because of his political views, Kazys Boruta spent years in prison both before and after WWII. In the last phase of his life in Soviet Lithuania, he earned a living by translations published under a pseudonym. Most of Whitehorn’s Windmill (Baltaragio malunas) was written in 1942, during the German ...
Martin Kacur: The Biography of an Idealist
1st Edition
By Ivan Cankar, John K. Cox
March 10, 2009
The novel Martin Kacur, which dates from 1907, tells the engrossing story of a young schoolteacher who moves from one provincial Slovene town to the next, trying to enlighten his countrymen and countrywomen but instead receiving only the mistrust and scorn of the traditional-minded and petty ...