Name: The Good Soldier Svejk

Also published as: The Good Soldier Schweik

Author: Jaroslav Hasek
Year: 1921
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Classic, Humor, Fiction, War/Military

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9780140449914
9780140182743
0140449914
0140182748
The Good Soldier Schweik is the story beginning in Prague with news of the assassination in Sarajevo that precipitates World War I. Schweik displays such enthusiasm about faithfully serving the Austrian Emperor in battle that no one can decide whether he is merely an imbecile or is craftily undermining the war effort. However, he is arrested by a member of the secret police after making some politically sensitive remarks, and is sent to prison. After being certified insane he is finally transferred to a madhouse, before being ejected. This is the Czech classic of anti-war satirical humor. A must-read.
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