Front cover image for The good soldier Švejk and his fortunes in the World War

The good soldier Švejk and his fortunes in the World War

Translates the iconoclastic Czech's classic satire depicting the adventures of a soldier during the First World War
Print Book, English, [1985]
Penguin Books ; Viking Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., [1985]
novels
xxii, 752 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
9780140035681, 0140035680
12972497
Part I
Behind the Lines: Preface
1. The Good Soldier Svejk Intervenes in the Great War
2. The Good Soldier Svejk at Police Headquarters
3. Svejk before the Medical Experts
4. Svejk Thrown out of the Lunatic Asylum
5. Svejk at the Police Station in Salmova Street
6. Svejk Home Again after having Broken through the Vicious Circle
7. Svejk Goes to the War
8. Svejk the Malingerer
9. Svejk in the Garrison Gaol
10. Svehk Batman to the Chaplain
11. Svejk Goes with the Chaplain to Celebrate a Drumhead Mass
12. A Religious Debate
13. Svejk Administers Extreme Unction
14. Svejk Batman to Lieutenant Lukas
15. Catastrophe
Part II
At the Front: 1. Svejk's Misadventures in the Train
2. Svejk's Budejovice Anabasis
3. Svejk's Adventures in Kiralyhida
4. New Sufferings
5. From Bruck an der Leitha to Sokal. Part III
The Glorious Licking: 1. Across Hungary
2. In Budapest
3. From Hatvan towards the Galacian Frontier
4. Forward March!
Part IV
The Glorious Licking Continued: 1. Svejk in a Transport of Russian Prisoners
2. Spiritual Consolation
3. Svejk back in his March Company
Translation of: Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války