This short history of Bohemian literature is written in a style differing from other volumes in this series entitled "Short Histories of the Literatures of the World." Bohemian literature was relatively unknown in Western Europe and a large amount of space has been devoted to translated quotations from Bohemian writers. Many of these unknown works have great interest and value. Contents: earliest Bohemian poetry; early prose writers, the precursors of Hus; Hus; period of the Hussite Wars; humanists and theologians; Bohemian historians of the 16th and 17th centuries; revival of Bohemian literature.