An edition of Válka s mloky (1936)

War with the newts

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War with the newts
Karel Čapek
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An edition of Válka s mloky (1936)

War with the newts

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  • ★★★★ 4.33 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 30 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read

Originally written in 1936, two years before Capek's death and three years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, War with the Newts is considered by many to be Capek's greatest book.

Working in the "fantastic" satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island. Capek sardonically details all the reactions of the civilized world - from horror to skepticism, from intellectual fascination to mercantile opportunism - and the ultimate destruction from which it (and the newts) might not escape.

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Northwestern University Press
Language
English
Pages
348

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Subjects
Czech Science fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Salamanders, Fiction, Science fiction, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Allegories, Utopias, Czech Satire, Czech drama, Fiction, fantasy, general, Politics and government, Humor, Exploitation, Newts
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Translation of: Válka s mloky.
Reprint. Originally published: London : Allen and Unwin, 1937.

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Evanston, IL

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Dewey Decimal Class
891.8/635
Library of Congress
PG5038.C3 V33 1985

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Pagination
xxi, 348 p. ;
Number of pages
348

ID Numbers

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OL2092430M
ISBN 10
0810106639
LCCN
88136681
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11909
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1630814

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