Karel Capek

• 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...

• Aug-1975
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• Jan-1990
• / Literary
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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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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....

• 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...

• Jan-2006
• / Science Fiction
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In this satirical classic, a brilliant scientist invents the Karburator, a reactor that can create abundant and practically free energy. However, the Karburator’s superefficient energy production also yields a powerful by-product. The machine works...

• 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...

• Oct-2011
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• Sep-2012
• / General Fiction
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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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Sep-2012
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Sep-2014
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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...

• 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 smal...

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‘I Had a Dog and a Cat’ is a delightful book �" suitable for both children and adults, translated by Marie and Robert Weatherall, and illustrated by Josef and Karel Capek. It is a comical tome, dealing in detail with our most beloved of pets,...

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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...

• / General Fiction
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Capek's glorious fairy tales contain all sorts of supernatural beings, fairies, elves, and talking animals; their plots stem from folk traditions where the innocent triumph.
At the same time, Capek infuses these tales with dazzling wordplay...

• / General Fiction
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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...