Ebook {Epub PDF} War with the Newts by Karel Čapek

Karel Capek is best known abroad for his plays, but at home he is also revered as an accomplished novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and writer of political articles. His bitingly satirical novel The War with the Newts () reveals his understanding of the possible consequences of scientific advance.4/5(24). War with the Newts - Kindle edition by Čapek, Karel, Wyllie, David. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading War with the Newts.4/5(38). War With the Newts, one of the great dystopian satires of the century, is about the discovery by a Dutch sea-captain of a race of giant, intelligent, talking, and walking newts. When humans begin to exploit the newts as slaves, the creatures organize to fight the oppression, taking up arms and challenging the humans for control of newt destiny and bltadwin.ru by:

Hardback Editions. June UK Hardback. Title: The War with the Newts. Author (s): Karel Capek. ISBN: X / (UK edition) Publisher: Benediction Classics. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA. April USA Hardback. Title: War With the Newts. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain skills and arms enough to challenge man's place at the top of the animal kingdom. Along the way, Karel Čapek satirizes science, runaway capitalism, fascism, journalism, militarism, even Hollywood. Karel Čapek is one of the the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He wrote with intelligence and humour on a wide variety of subjects. His works are known for their interesting and precise descriptions of reality, and Čapek is renowned for his excellent work with the Czech language.

Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. War with the Newts (Válka s Mloky in the original Czech), also translated as Salamander Wars, is a satirical science fiction novel by Czech author Karel Čapek. Forget all that. Image. “War With the Newts,” published in , is a funny, bizarre, dystopian masterpiece, and Capek deserves a place on the Mount Rushmore of authorial seers, right. Originally written in , 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.