Tales of the Lesser Quarter

“Thirteen stories of Prague's Malá Strana, the 'Lesser Quarter' beneath the castle, in the middle of the nineteenth century: a quiet house where a week brings a death, a betrothal, a lottery win and a marital battle; two old enemies at an inn table; a beggar ruined by gossip; a shopkeeper ruined by his pipe; a boy locked in the cathedral to see St Wenceslas say Mass; and a young lawyer who moves to the quarter for peace and finds nothing but neighbours.”