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

 · War With the Newts by Karel Čapek () French title: La guerre des salamandres. Translated by Claudia Ancelot. War With the Newts by Karel Čapek is our Book Club choice for December.. Published in , it’s a dystopian fiction where Čapek imagines a world where a huge population of newts grows and lives under the sea. War with the newts Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Share to Tumblr. War with the newts by Capek, Karel, Publication date Topics Science fiction, Czech Publisher New York: Bantam Books Collection. War with the Newts. by. Karel Čapek, Ewald Osers (Translator), Δημοσθένης Κούρτοβικ (Translator) · Rating details · 10, ratings · reviews. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain /5().

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. 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. War with the newts Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Share to Tumblr. War with the newts by Capek, Karel, Publication date Topics Science fiction, Czech Publisher New York: Bantam Books Collection.

Even though the plot of War with the Newts may not shock audiences accustomed to its “human-invention-intended-for- good-becomes-in-the-end-not-so-good” story, readers shouldn’t neglect this often-overlooked science-fiction classic from by notable Czech writer and satirist Karel Capek. Humans, motivated by a range of impulses: greed, curiosity, and sometimes even the best of intentions, have created an uncontrollable menace and brought about the end to their dominion over the planet. 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. It concerns the discovery in the Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, an intelligent breed of newts, who are initially enslaved and exploited. The War with the Newts By Karel Capek One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth cent.