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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  • ★★★★ 4.2 (5 ratings) ·
  • 40 Want to read
  • 13 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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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
348

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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, Fiction, satire, Fiction, science fiction, general, Czech fiction, Pg5038.c3 v33 2010, 891.86352, Extraterrestrial beings

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War with the newts
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War with the newts
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War with the newts
1959, Bantam Books

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Edition Notes

First published: George Allen and Unwin, 1937.

Translation of: Válka s mloky.

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London
Series
Penguin twentieth-century classics

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Dewey Decimal Class
891.86352

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Pagination
xxi,11-348p. ;
Number of pages
348

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17440663M
Internet Archive
warwithnewts0000cape_u3b2
ISBN 10
0141180951
OCLC/WorldCat
39747374
Library Thing
11909
Goodreads
1478437

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Work ID
OL575639W

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