An edition of Válka s mloky (1936)

War with the newts

by Karel Čapek

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An edition of Válka s mloky (1936)

War with the newts

by Karel Čapek

★★★★ 4.0 (6 ratings)
61 Want to read
15 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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1959

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Bantam Books

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241

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1 The War with the Newts 2015-07-19, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 1515137678 9781515137672	cccc Borrow Listen Locate
2 La Guerra De Las Salamandras 2008, Editorial Sirio, Sirio 849251633X 9788492516339	cccc Borrow Listen Locate
3 War with the newts 1998, Penguin Books in English 0141180951 9780141180953	cccc Borrow Listen Locate
4 War with the newts 1985, Unwin in English 0048233080 9780048233080	cccc Borrow Listen Locate
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