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        • Jane Austen
          • Northanger Abbey
            • Chapter 2
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              • Chapter 31
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            • Chapters 51–61
        • Lewis Carroll
          • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
            • All in the Golden Afternoon
            • I: Down the Rabbit Hole
              • II: The Pool of Tears
            • III: A Caucus Race and a Long Tale
              • IV: The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
            • V: Advice from a Caterpillar
              • VI: Pig and Pepper
            • VII: A Mad Tea Party
              • VIII: The Queen’s Croquet Grount
            • IX: Đ Mock Turtle’s Story
              • X: The Lobster Quadrille
            • XI: Who Stole the Tarts?
              • XII: Alice’s Evidence
          • Through the Looking Glass
            • I: Looking-Glass House
              • II: The Garden of Live Flowers
            • III: Looking-Glass Insects
              • IV: Tweedledum and Tweedledee
            • V: Wool and Water
              • VI: Humpty Dumpty
            • VII: The Lion and the Unicorn
              • VIII: “It’s My Own Invention”
            • IX: Queen Alice
              • X: Shaking
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              • XII: Which Dreamed it?
        • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
          • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
        • Jack London
          • A Wicked Woman – short story
        • Saki
          • The Open Window – short story
        • H G Wells
          • The Time Machine
            • Chapter II
              • Chapter III
            • Chapter IV
              • Chapter V
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              • Chapter XI
            • Chapter XII and Epilogue
          • The War of the Worlds
            • Book 2
        • Oscar Wilde
          • The Ballad of Reading Gaol
          • The Nightingale and the Rose – short story
        • Virginia Woolf
          • A Haunted House – short story
          • To the Lighthouse
            • Part II: Time Passes
            • Part III: The Lighthouse
    • TRANSLATIONS
      • from Czech
        • Karel Čapek
          • The Blue Chrysanthemum – short story
          • The Fortune Teller – short story
          • PC Mejzlík’s Dilemma – short story
        • Hana Hindráková
          • Nobody’s Children – novel (free download)
      • from Portuguese
        • Machado de Assis
          • Brother Simão – short story
            • Captain Mendonça – short story
          • Life Eternal – short story
            • Looking after – short story
          • Mr Barreto – short story
            • Our Song – short story
          • With Muffled Drum – short story
        • Artur Azevedo
          • Estanislau’s Widow – short story
            • Food and Drink – short story
          • Grandad Andrade – short story
            • The Prettiest Girl in Rio – short story
          • Top Down – short story
            • The Widow – short story
        • Lima Barreto
          • Burials at Inhaúma – short story
          • The Decline & Fall of Policarpo Quaresma – Contents & Introduction
            • Part 1
            • Part 2
            • Part 3
          • The Library – short story
          • The Man Who Spoke Javanese – short story
        • Humberto de Campos
          • The Promise – short story
          • The Blue Rose – short story
        • Coelho Neto
          • Fish and Theology – short story

TRANSLATIONS FROM CZECH

Karel Čapek

The Blue Chrysanthemum The Fortune Teller PC Mejzlík’s Dilemma

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My translation of Děti Nikoho (Nobody’s Children), a novel by Hana Hindráková about street children in Kenya, can be downloaded for free. I’m currently translating her novel Smrtící Byznys (Deadly Business), about counterfeit medicines in Uganda.

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