Karel Capek

Author : Ivan Klíma
Publisher : Catbird Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945774532
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karel Čapek written by Ivan Klíma and published by Catbird Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And although originally written in Czech, the book was commissioned by Catbird Press and was therefore written with foreign readers in mind; in other words, no prior knowledge of Capek's writings or his milieu is required."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486817245
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gardener's Year written by Karel Capek and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lighthearted mock-treatise reflects upon the pains and rewards of tending a small garden plot. "This very entertaining volume with its delightfully humorous pictures should be read by all gardeners." — Nature.

Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Catbird Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945774075
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward the Radical Center written by Karel Čapek and published by Catbird Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 introduced the literary robot.

Author : Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Publisher : Catbird Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945774266
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talks with T.G. Masaryk written by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and published by Catbird Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Dora Round Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937) was a philosophy professor who became the founder and first president of Czechoslovakia (1918-1935) and was a leading figure in world affairs between the wars. Capek, author of 'War with the Newts', and Czechoslovakia's most prominent writer during these years, interviewed Masaryk at great length and produced this volume that tells Masaryk's unique story.

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486112209
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.U.R. written by Karel Capek and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sets of identical twins provide the basis for ongoing incidents of mistaken identity, within a lively plot of quarrels, arrests, and a grand courtroom denouement. One of Shakespeare's earliest comedic efforts.

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408148560
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capek Four Plays written by Karel Capek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There was no writer like him. . . prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination" (Arthur Miller) This volume brings together fresh new translations of four of his most popular plays, more than ever relevant today. In R. U. R., the Robot - an idea Çapek was the first to invent - gradually takes over all aspects of human existence except procreation; The Insect Play is a satirical fable in which beetles, butterflies and ants give dramatic form to different philosophies of life; The Makropulos Case is a fantasy about human mortality, finally celebrating the average lifespan; The White Plague is a savage and anguished satire against fascist dictatorship and the virus of inhumanity.

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473381886
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karel Capek Fairy Tales - With One Extra as a Makeweight and Illustrated by Joseph Capek written by Karel Capek and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karel Capek Fairy Tales is a delightful collection of ten classic children's stories, written by Karel Capek. It is beautifully illustrated throughout, with striking black-and-white images of Karel's brother; Josef Capek. The narratives of 'Capek Fairy Tales' include: 'A Long Tale about a Cat', 'The Dogs' Tale', 'The Birds' Tale', 'The First Bandits' Tale', 'The Water Sprites' Tale', 'The Long Police Tale', and many more. Karel Capek (1890 - 1938) was a Czech writer, best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts and the play, R. U. R, which introduced the word, 'robot'. He maintained a close relationship with his brother Josef (1887 - 1945), and the two lived and worked together for most of their adult life. Together, the Capeks produced books and plays on themes as diverse as detective stories, full-novels, philosophy, fairy tale collections, theatre plays, and even a book on gardening.

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571271707
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Believe in People written by Karel Capek and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play RUR, Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of Czechoslovakia of the 1920s and 30s. But it is in his journalism - his brief, sparky and delightful columns - that Capek can be found at his most succinct, direct and appealing. This selection of Capek's writing, translated into English for the first time, contains his essential ideas. The pieces are animated by his passion for the ordinary and the everyday - from laundry to toothache, from cats to cleaning windows - his love of language, his lyrical observations of the world and above all his humanism, his belief in people. His letters to his wife Olga, also published here, are extraordinarily moving and beautifully distinct from his other writings. Uplifting, enjoyable and endlessly wise, Believe in People is a collection to treasure.

Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Catbird Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945774341
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocryphal Tales written by Karel Čapek and published by Catbird Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the Czech by Norma Comrada A grand collection of tales and fables from one of Czechoslovakia's most respected writers that approach great events and figures of history, myth and literature in startling ways. Jesus's loves and fishes miracle is described from the viewpoint of a baker. Townspeople argue about who's to blame for the approaching hordes of Attila the Hun. Humorous, thought-provoking, and sometimes frightening, they show Capek at his very best.

Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473392705
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mother - A Play in Three Acts written by Karel Čapek and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mother is an anti-war drama by the famed Czech writer of the early 20th century Karel Čapek. The play is influenced by the Spanish civil war and illustrates the difficult relationship between the men that wanted to fight, and their mothers and loved ones who didn't want them to go and join the fight against fascism in order to defend democracy, freedom, and progress and to show the upset and suffering that comes with war. This early work by Karel Čapek was originally published in 1938 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.