Cross Roads

✍ Scribed by Karel Capek

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written during and right after World War I, this volume pairs two short story collections from Karel Capek, considered one of the greatest Czech writers. The first collection, “Wayside Crosses,” presents an agonized and unsuccessful search for God and truth. These metaphysical tales are not about finding God as much as they are about discovering man’s limitations, his terror and helplessness, and understanding the value of the ongoing search. The second collection, “Painful Tales,” contains more realistic stories of characters being forced to make choices in which one good conflicts with another.

✦ Table of Contents

Copyright
......Page 5
Contents
......Page 6
Czech Pronunciation Guide
......Page 7
Introduction
......Page 8
The Footprint
......Page 12
Elegy (Footprint II)
......Page 19
Time Stands Still
......Page 32
Story Without Words
......Page 34
The Lost Way
......Page 38
Grafitto
......Page 44
The Mountain
......Page 49
Temptation
......Page 73
Reflections
......Page 77
The Waiting Room
......Page 81
Help!
......Page 87
Lída
......Page 92
Love Song (Lída II)
......Page 110
Two Fathers
......Page 126
Three
......Page 133
Helena
......Page 142
At the Castle
......Page 155
Money
......Page 177
The Bully
......Page 195
The Shirts
......Page 213
Insulted
......Page 223
The Tribunal
......Page 238