mistydemeo(May 26, 2012, 12:38 a.m.) Thanks for adding the ebook link! I should note though that it's only the Czech edition (and illustrations) that are PD - the English translation of the book from 1986 still needs unglueing.
mistydemeo(May 24, 2012, 10:51 a.m.) The first Czech edition is now available at archive.org at http://archive.org/details/liskabystrouska00rtes or Openlibrary at http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2871852W/
mistydemeo(March 5, 2012, 10:45 p.m.) Good to know! I will have to try to track down a Czech first edition.
Translation, alas, is not PD.
eric(March 5, 2012, 10:09 p.m.) If published before 1923, it's in the public domain. Scan it, upload to internet archive.
So we need to find an old copy.
mistydemeo(March 5, 2012, 6:47 p.m.) While the English translation includes illustrations by Maurice Sendak, the Czech version of the novella (fist published 1920) and most other translations use a series of ink sketches by the relatively unknown Czech painter Stanislav Lolek (1873-1936).
Lolek's illustrations actually came first - Tesnohlidek's prose was inspired by, and expanded on, the contents of the artwork.
Sendak's illustrations were originally created for a production of the opera based on the novella, and are not specifically based on the book.
Thanks for adding the ebook link! I should note though that it's only the Czech edition (and illustrations) that are PD - the English translation of the book from 1986 still needs unglueing.
The first Czech edition is now available at archive.org at http://archive.org/details/liskabystrouska00rtes or Openlibrary at http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2871852W/
Good to know! I will have to try to track down a Czech first edition.
Translation, alas, is not PD.
If published before 1923, it's in the public domain. Scan it, upload to internet archive.
So we need to find an old copy.
While the English translation includes illustrations by Maurice Sendak, the Czech version of the novella (fist published 1920) and most other translations use a series of ink sketches by the relatively unknown Czech painter Stanislav Lolek (1873-1936).
Lolek's illustrations actually came first - Tesnohlidek's prose was inspired by, and expanded on, the contents of the artwork.
Sendak's illustrations were originally created for a production of the opera based on the novella, and are not specifically based on the book.