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
Bantam Books
Pages
241

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The War with the Newts
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War with the newts
1998, Penguin Books
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War with the newts
1985, Unwin
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War with the newts
1959, Bantam Books

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
Bantam classic, FC 46

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.86
Library of Congress
PG5038.C3 V33 1959

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 241 p. ;
Number of pages
241

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24223376M
Internet Archive
warwithnewts00cape
OCLC/WorldCat
2671235

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL575639W

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