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Karel Capek
Book List in Order: 24 titles
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R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots
- 1920
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A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot"
Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922 -- garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produc... -
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War with the Newts
- Jan-1990
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One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that th...
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Three Novels: Hordubal, Meteor, an Ordinary Life
- Feb-1990
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This trilogy of novels was the culmination of Karel Capek's career. The novels share neither characters nor events; instead, they approach the problem of knowing people -- of mutual understanding -- in a variety of ways. Detectives faced with a murde...
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Toward the Radical Center
- Mar-1990
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Capek's best plays, stories, and columns take us from the social contributions of clumsy people to dramatic meditations on mortality and commitment. The Reader includes a new and, at last, complete English translation of R.U.R., the play that introdu...
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Tales from Two Pockets
- Jun-1994
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Capek wrote 48 stories that deconstruct the mystery story by breaking one rule here, three rules there, and yet also make for wonderful reading. His unique approaches to the mysteries of justice and truth are full of the ordinary and the extraordinar...
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Nine Fairy Tales And One More Thrown in for Good Measure
- Nov-1996
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Karel Capek, author of the acclaimed War with the Newts, is one of the great Czechoslovak writers of the twentieth century. These fairy tales bear Capek's combination of the fantastic and the satirical, offering fairies, elves, and talking animals al...
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Apocryphal Tales
- May-1997
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The stories in this collection tackle great events and figures of history, myth, and literature in unexpected ways, questioning views on such basic concepts as justice, progress, wisdom, belief, and patriotism....
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Cross Roads
- Aug-2002
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Written during and right after World War I, this volume pairs two short story collections from Karel Capek, considered one of the greatest Czech writers. The first collection, “Wayside Crosses,” presents an agonized and unsuccessful search for Go...
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The Absolute at Large
- Jan-2006
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The Absolute at Large (Továrna na absolutno in the original Czech, literally translated as The Factory for the Absolute), is a science fiction novel written by Czech author Karel Čapek in 1922. The first sentence opens the story on New Year's D...
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Rossum's Universal Robots
- Aug-2011
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Determined to liberate the mass-produced but highly intelligent robots forged in the machinery of Rossum's island factory, Helena Gory arrives in a blaze of righteousness. Soon perplexed by the robots' seeming humanity but lack of sentience, she dese...
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The First Rescue Party - A Novel Translated by M. and R. Weatherall
- Sep-2012
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Hordubal - Translated by M. and R. Weatherall
- Sep-2012
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Money and Other Stories With a Foreword by John Galsworthy
- Sep-2012
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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An Ordinary Life
- Sep-2012
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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The Gardener's Year
- May-2023
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The Gardener’s Year is a charming and light-hearted insight into the life of an amateur gardener. Structured loosely around what to plant, grow or cultivate each month, Karel Capek takes us on a rollicking journey through a year in his own small ga...
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R.U.R. Or, Rossum's Universal Robots
- Jan-2024
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R.U.R., or Rossum's Universal Robots, is a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek, a Czech writer who authored many plays and novels, many with science-fiction and dystopian themes. R.U.R. is perhaps the best known of these works because it broug...
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I Had a Dog and a Cat - Pictures Drawn by Josef and Karel Capek
Karel Capek's 'I had a Dog and Cat'.
This fascinating book contains lovely illustrations from both Josef and Karel Capek.
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PEACEFULLY, endlessly, snow was falling on the frozen countryside. Silence always falls with the snow, reflected Boura, who had taken shelter in a shed.His isolation amid the vastness of nature made him feel both sad and solemn. So far as his eye cou...
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Karel Capek Fairy Tales - With One Extra as a Makeweight and Illustrated by Joseph Capek
Karel Capek Fairy Tales is a delightful collection of ten classic children's stories, written by Karel Capek. It is beautifully illustrated throughout, with striking black-and-white images of Karel's brother; Josef Capek. The narratives of 'Capek Fai...
