Description

A collection of three of Hrabal’s works, Closely Watched Trains,  Dance Classes for the Elderly and Advanced, and I Served the King of England published together. Closely Watched Trains follows a young railroad apprentice’s coming of age in German occupied Czechoslovakia. Dance Classes for the Elderly and Advanced depicts a shoemaker describing the adventures of his life to a group of sunbathing young women. I Served the King of England follows a waiter in the years before WWII as he serves an emperor and is eventually able to make his dream of building a hotel come true, only to lose it all when the communists come into power.