I Served the King of England

I Served the King of England

First edition
Author	Bohumil Hrabal
Original title	Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále
Translator	Paul Wilson
Language	Czech
Publisher	Jazzová sekce
Publication date	1983
Publication place	Czechoslovakia
Published in English	1989
Pages	188 (Czech first edition) 241 (English first edition)
ISBN	9788071101215
OCLC	469470001
Dewey Decimal	891.8/635 (English translation)
LC Class	PG5039.18.R2 O2713 1990 (English translation)
Text	I Served the King of England at Internet Archive

I Served the King of England (Czech: Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále) is a novel by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. The story is set in Prague in the 1940s, during the Nazi occupation and early communism, and follows a young man who alternately gets into trouble and has successes. Hrabal wrote the book during a period of censorship in the early 1970s. It began circulating in 1971,^[1] and was formally published in 1983. It was adapted into a 2006 film with the same title, directed by Jiří Menzel, a noted director of the Czech New Wave.