<Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 1971 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Published in English </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Pages </Th> <Td> 301 </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 70s . It began circulating in 1971, 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 . </P>

Bohumil hrabal i served the king of england