An edition of Válka s mloky (1936)

War with the newts

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An edition of Válka s mloky (1936)

War with the newts

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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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Catbird Press
Language
English
Pages
241

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Edition Availability
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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Edition Notes

Translation of: Válka s mloky.
"A Garrigue book."

Published in
Highland Park, N.J

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.8/635
Library of Congress
PG5038.C3 V33 1990, PG5038.C3V33, PG5038.C3 V33 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
241 p. ;
Number of pages
241

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2203566M
Internet Archive
warwithnewts0000apek
ISBN 10
0945774109
LCCN
89025373
OCLC/WorldCat
20631270
Library Thing
11909
Goodreads
816440

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