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War with the Newts Karel Capek

War with the Newts By Karel Capek

War with the Newts by Karel Capek


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Summary

Perhaps Capek's greatest novel, "War With the Newts" is both charming and frightening: a fantasy in which human history is gradually - but appallingly - altered by the discovery on a remote island of a race of highly intelligent salamanders.

War with the Newts Summary

War with the Newts by Karel Capek

The human world is stunned to discover that there is another intelligent species on the planet - a race of sophisticated, bipedal amphibious reptiles, ripe for exploitation by mankind. These creatures can use tools, fashion products and do the workno real person would wish to do. And fight. And perhaps even turn on those who had taken them for granted for so long. Written in 1936, WAR WITH THE NEWTS is a darkly humorous commentary on the cruelty and venality of man, the folly of exploitation, and the seeds of conflict. As Europe moved ever closer to the Second World War, the allegory within WAR WITH THE NEWTS was proved savagely right.

About Karel Capek

Karel Capek, the Czech novelist, dramatist and essayist, was born in Bohemia in 1890. Among his best known works are R. U. R. , Insect Play and Meteor.

Additional information

GOR004713808
9780141180953
0141180951
War with the Newts by Karel Capek
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
1998-08-27
368
N/A
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