# Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources

Author: Wratislaw, Albert Henry, 1822-1892 [Compiler]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48761

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## Summary

These stories are translated from the language of the Slavonic inhabitants of nearly three-fourths of Bohemia, the 'Czechs,' as the Poles write the word, or 'Chekhs,' if we adopt the nearest orthographical approximation to it that the English alphabet allows us to make. This nation had an early literary development, commencing before the foundation of the University of Prague (_Praha_) by the Emperor Charles IV. in 1348. For a long time after that epoch the Bohemians could justly claim the title of the best educated nation in Europe. They produced a prose writer--Thomas of Stitny, whose first original work was published in 1377--whose equal is not to be found in English literature till th...

## Chapters

- [ii. 34 161](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sixty-folk-tales-from-exclusively-slavonic-sources-48761/chapters/3/index.md)
- [iii. 25 138](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sixty-folk-tales-from-exclusively-slavonic-sources-48761/chapters/2/index.md)
- [ii. 66 121](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sixty-folk-tales-from-exclusively-slavonic-sources-48761/chapters/1/index.md)