Karel Čapek. War with the Newts

Karel Čapek is one of the most renowned Czech writers. He is the author of novels, short stories, plays, and feuilletons, crafted with inexhaustible imagination and brilliant humor, captivating readers worldwide. This collection includes the author's most celebrated works: his finest short stories, the fantasy play "RUR" (which first introduced Čapek's coinage of the word "robot" and gave birth to the now-familiar plot of a rebellion of machines against humans), and, finally, the novel "War with the Newts," presented for the first time in a new translation. This vibrant, whimsical, and extraordinary story of salamanders discovered on lost islands by Captain van Toch is considered the pinnacle of Čapek's writing and one of the finest novels of the twentieth century.