Karel Capek is one of the most famous Czech writers. He is the author of novels, short stories, plays, feuilletons created with inexhaustible imagination and brilliant humor that won the hearts of readers in many countries of the world. This collection includes the most famous works of the author: the best stories, the fantastic play "RUR" (it is in it that the word "robot", which was coined by Capek, first appears, and the plot about the uprising of machines against people so familiar to us today) is born) and, finally , the novel "War with the Salamanders", presented for the first time in a new translation. A bright, whimsical, extraordinary story about salamanders discovered on the lost islands by Captain van Toch, is considered the pinnacle of Czapek's work and one of the best novels of the twentieth century.
Pages: 640 (offset). Hard cover
Dimensions: 140x210 mm
Series: Foreign Literature. big books
