An edition of Válka s mloky (1936)

War With the Newts

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War With the Newts
Karel Čapek, Karel Čapek
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An edition of Válka s mloky (1936)

War With the Newts

  • 4.3 (3 ratings) ·
  • 31 Want to read
  • 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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Publisher
Unesco
Language
English
Pages
242

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Cover of: War With the Newts
War With the Newts
May 1999, Unesco
Paperback in English
Cover of: War with the newts
War with the newts
1998, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: War with the newts
War with the newts
1990, Catbird Press
in English
Cover of: War with the newts
War with the newts
1985, Unwin
in English
Cover of: War with the newts
War with the newts
1959, Bantam Books

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
242

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9891352M
ISBN 10
9231035991
ISBN 13
9789231035999
OCLC/WorldCat
45405485
Library Thing
11909
Goodreads
568233

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