Project Gutenberg 2014-05-08 Public domain in the USA. 61 Winlow, Clara Vostrovsky 1876 Meister, Charles E. 20006448 Our Little Czecho-Slovak Cousin E-text prepared by Emmy, Beth Baran, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Our Little Czecho-Slovak Cousin" by Clara Vostrovsky Winlow is a fictional children's story written in the early 20th century. The narrative invites readers into the lives of Slovak children, focusing specifically on Jozef and his experiences in a village marked by the struggle against oppression. Central themes of cultural identity, national pride, and the quest for freedom resonate throughout the opening chapters, hinting at a broader historical context involving the Czecho-Slovak people's fight against Magyar oppression. The opening of the story sets a somber tone as tragedy strikes a Slovak village where fear and mourning preside following a violent confrontation with Magyar authorities. Jozef, the protagonist, learns of these events while working with his family and absorbs the tension and fear that have gripped the community. As he navigates his daily life in a landscape dotted with reminders of their cultural and historical struggles, he is soon drawn into the normal joys of childhood, including a mushroom-hunting adventure with his pleasant cousins, including Helena and Ruzena. These scenes balance the initial grimness and serve to develop a sense of familial love, friendship, and the innocence of youth against a background of political tension and social injustice. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/45616/45616-h/images/cover.jpg en Children -- Czechoslovakia -- Juvenile literature DB PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: History - European Browsing: Travel & Geography 171569 171460 2024-09-19T07:02:50.291651 2023-09-20T03:32:59.453610 text/html text/html 170425 2014-05-08T15:11:52 text/html 619284 2014-05-08T15:14:55 text/html application/zip 594887 2024-09-19T07:02:54.703665 application/epub+zip 595914 2024-09-19T07:02:51.121655 application/epub+zip 134541 2024-09-19T07:02:50.697649 application/epub+zip 688254 2024-09-19T07:02:57.505608 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 660268 2024-09-19T07:02:54.047660 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 182669 2022-09-20T18:58:08.042177 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 139619 139548 2024-09-19T07:02:49.745651 2023-09-20T03:32:58.893643 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 139322 2014-05-08T15:09:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 54528 2014-05-08T15:09:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 139329 2014-05-08T15:09:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 54530 2014-05-08T15:09:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20386 2024-09-19T07:02:57.642607 application/rdf+xml 31000 2024-09-19T07:02:50.784637 image/jpeg 4539 2024-09-19T07:02:50.739663 image/jpeg 670686 2024-09-19T07:02:50.337644 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog