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<body link="#008080" vlink="#008080" alink="#008080" leftmargin="0" bgcolor="#FFCCCC"> <p>        <font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#008080"><strong>What do authoritative references say about this book:</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><marquee style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 40pt; color: rgb(255,0,0); border-top: thick ridge rgb(255,128,128); border-bottom: thick ridge rgb(255,128,128); padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0" border="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" scrolldelay="0" width="100%" scrollamount="11">ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA: "... considered one of the greatest masterpieces of satirical writing." CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: "... has been hailed as a masterwork, ... has been compared to the satires of British writer Jonathan Swift. ... Jaroslav Hasek has been compared to French satirist Francois Rabelais ... the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus ... to American writer Joseph Heller ..." CRITICAL SURVEY OF LONG FICTION - Foreign Language Series: "His great...masterpiece...book does not have a rival in its genre in this century ..." BERTOLT BRECHT: "If anyone asks me to pick three literary works of this century which in my opinion will become part of world literature, then I would say that one of them is Hasek's 'The Good Soldier Svejk'..." LESLIE A. FIEDLER: "...'terribly funny', we say putting down the book, and not taking the adverb seriously enough."</marquee><br> </p> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="0" width="95%"> <tr> <td width="203" valign="top"> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="97%"> <tr> <td width="100%" align="left" valign="top"> <font face="Times New Roman"><strong>It seems unconscionable that Hašek's Good Soldier <font color="#FF0000"><big><big>Švejk</big></big> <big><big>has been inaccessible to English readers</big></big></font> for so long. What if Victor Hugo or Leo Tolstoy had been kept from us? It's hard to imagine literature without them.</strong></font> <p><a href="5.html" target="_top"><img src="images/Crime_against_the_State.jpg" alt="This is a crime against the State!" style="border: medium none" align="left" width="167" height="47"></a> <font face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p><br> <img src="images/AG00088_.gif" alt="Download FREE chapters now!" align="right" width="32" height="35"></p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><map name="FPMap0"> <area target="_top" href="5.html" coords="44, 96, 40, 89, 49, 76, 44, 54, 51, 42, 68, 43, 58, 25, 75, 35, 72, 27, 88, 31, 78, 22, 99, 20, 81, 16, 86, 10, 78, 11, 80, 8, 74, 8, 78, 3, 61, 7, 58, 2, 57, 7, 51, 4, 55, 16, 52, 19, 46, 13, 47, 3, 34, 3, 27, 10, 24, 16, 28, 23, 24, 29, 11, 31, 4, 33, 4, 44, 3, 54, 11, 81, 23, 65, 38, 79, 30, 92, 44, 101" shape="polygon"></map><img src="images/copr.gif" alt="This is a crime against the State!" style="background-color: rgb(255,193,193); border: medium none" align="center" border="0" usemap="#FPMap0" width="93" height="100"></p> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellpadding="12" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#008080"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="images/A_literary_analyst.gif" alt="The only example of this genre in the 20th century!" width="203" height="202"> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <div align="right"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="67%"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="bottom"> <p align="center"><br> <b><a href="1.html" target="_top"><img border="0" src="images/Read%20the%20INTRODUCTION.gif" align="absbottom" alt="of the Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War" width="237" height="24"></a> </b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top"> <p align="center"><b><a href="1.html" target="_top"><img border="0" src="images/to%20the%20new%20English%20edition.gif" align="top" alt="of the Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War" width="218" height="24"></a> </b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <b><a href="1.html" target="_top"></a> <a href="1.html" target="_top"></a> <br> <br> </b><a href="1.html" target="_top"><img border="0" src="images/AG00017_.gif" align="right" alt="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 Europeans, it is the Czech writer, Jaroslav Hasek." width="134" height="150"></a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </center> </div> </td> <td valign="top" width="252"> <p align="right"><br> </p> <p align="right"><img src="images/AG00088_.gif" alt="Look at this!" align="left" width="32" height="35"><a href="6.html" target="_top"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#008080"><big><big><big>published <b>in 54 languages</b></big></big></big></font></a> </p> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p align="right"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>read by</b> tens-, and most probably hundreds-of-<b>millions</b> <b>people</b><big><big><font color="#008080"> </font></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#008080">worldwide</font></big></big> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="116%"> <tr> <td width="100%" align="left"> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>filmed and dramatized several times</b></font></p> <p align="left"><a href="BookOneChapter1.html"><font color="#0000FF" size="4"><b><blink><strong>3 FREE preview chapters</strong></blink></b></font></a> <img src="images/AG00108_.gif" alt="Download this!" align="top" width="44" height="23"> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <p><br> </p> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="12" cellspacing="0" width="224" bgcolor="#FFFF00"> <tr> <td width="50%"> <font face="Times New Roman"><strong>A host of literary critics acknowledge that Jaroslav Hašek was one of the earliest writers of what we have come to know as modern literature. 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