Cross Roads
 Excellent Collection of Short Stories From Karel Capek: Karel Capek, the Czechoslovakian writer, is probably best known for coining the term "robot" in one of his plays. This splendid little volume collects two short story collections that [... more]
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Tales from Two Pockets
From Amazon.com: Karel Capek (1890-1938), one of the greatest Czechoslovakian authors of the century, and who mastered numerous forms of writing, was particularly inventive with the genre of mystery, detective, and crime fiction. In Tales from Two [... more]
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Letters from England
Imagine Mark Twain, horrified at British trends, and laugh: . In 1924, Czech novelist-playwright Karel Capek (R.U.R., The War of the Newts) visited England and sent his impressions back to his homeland. Much of what he writes is about the culture shock [... more]
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Penguin Classics R U R Rossums Universal Robots
The origin of species,: This is only a short and very dated play, but it's also a significant piece of literature in it's own right. Without this Asimov would not have created the three laws, Metropolis would be quite different and C3PO & R2D2 would [... more]
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Talks with T. G. Masaryk
Author: Karel Capek Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 943.7032092 EAN: 9780945774266 ISBN: 0945774265 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: 2003-01-23 [... more]
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Three Novels: Hordubal, Meteor, an Ordinary Life
Author: Karel Capek Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 891.8635 EAN: 9780945774082 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0945774087 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: 2003-01-23 [... more]
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The Gardener's Year
Eternal spring....: I don't know much about Czech literature, so I don't know if the Prague Spring had anything to do with the writing of Karel Capek, but I would not be surprised to discover a connection. "Leaves wither because spring is already [... more]
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R.U.R.
The origin of species,: This is only a short and very dated play, but it's also a significant piece of literature in it's own right. Without this Asimov would not have created the three laws, Metropolis would be quite different and C3PO & R2D2 would [... more]
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Le meteore
Author: Capek Karel Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 891.8'685 EAN: 9782825115268 ISBN: 2825115266 Number Of Pages: 191 Publication Date: 2001 [... more]
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R. U. R.
The origin of species,: This is only a short and very dated play, but it's also a significant piece of literature in it's own right. Without this Asimov would not have created the three laws, Metropolis would be quite different and C3PO & R2D2 would [... more]
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Apocryphal Tales
wonderful: This is terrific!I think Capek is the most underrated writer of the century{at least}.He's comparatively little known,and seldom given credit even for the word "robot" which he "invented".He's got it all-humor,lovely [... more]
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Gardener's Year
Eternal spring....: I don't know much about Czech literature, so I don't know if the Prague Spring had anything to do with the writing of Karel Capek, but I would not be surprised to discover a connection. "Leaves wither because spring is already [... more]
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