War with the newts /
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 chronicl...
| Основен автор: | Čapek, Karel, 1890-1938. |
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| Други автори: | Osers, Ewald, 1917-2011. |
| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Highland Park, N.J. :
Catbird Press,
[1990]
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| Онлайн достъп: |
Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
War with the newts. |
| Резюме: |
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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| Описание на библ. документ: |
Translation of: Válka s mloky. "A Garrigue book." |
| Физически характеристики: |
241 p. ; 22 cm. Also issued online. |
| ISBN: |
0945774109 (pbk.) 9780945774105 (pbk.) |