War with the Newts - format ePub

"La guerra de las salamandras" (1936) es una sátira de las tendencias destructivas de la sociedad moderna y una investigación sobre las relaciones entre realidad y representación. Las salamandras simbolizan...

Obra del importante novelista, dramaturgo, periodista y traductor checo de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Su obra está marcada por su formación filosófica y estética, sobre todo por el pragmatismo y el...

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...

En avril 1923, Karel Capek démissionne du poste de dramaturge qu’il occupe au Théâtre municipal de Vinohrady et part se reposer plusieurs semaines en Italie qui vit sa première année de l’ère fasciste....

Nel 1936, mentre sull’Europa già incombeva lo spettro della guerra, Karel Čapek intraprese con la moglie il suo ultimo grande viaggio, attraversando la Danimarca e la Svezia con la ferrovia per proseguire...

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots is a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek, a Czech writer who wrote many plays and novels, many of them...

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The Gardener’s Year is a charming and light-hearted insight into the life of an amateur gardener. Structured loosely around what to plant, grow or cultivate each month, Karel Capek takes us on a rollicking...

Dans les années 1940, l'ingénieur tchèque Marek invente une machine révolutionnaire, appelée Carburateur, capable de produire de l'énergie à peu de frais en fragmentant les atomes et sans générer de déchets....

Les tritons de Capek sont de braves salamandres habitant à faible profondeur près des côtes. Ce sont des êtres paisibles, taillables et corvéables à merci et même comestibles. Après les avoir découvert,...

El capità J. van Toch descobreix als mars del sud una nova espècie d'amfibis capaços de realitzar tot tipus de treballs manuals sota l'aigua. Aquests animals, d'una intel·ligència remarcable, aviat són...

Der begeisterte Gärtner Capek war als einer der ersten Science-fiction-Autoren bekannt. Mit Humor und Ironie führt er seine Leser durchs Gartenjahr. Mit Phantasie und Liebe zum Gärtnern geht der Autor...

Válka s mloky od Karla Čapka je satirický vědeckofantastický román, který nabízí hlubokou kritiku společnosti a varování před nebezpečím lidské chamtivosti. Příběh začíná objevením nového druhu mloků,...

NÁZEV: RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots)AUTOR: Karel Čapek, 1920Bez DRMJazyk: ČeskyIlustrovánoŽánr: Vědeckofantastická hraPoprvé uvedená v roce 1921, "RUR" je zásadní sci-fi hra, která světu přinesla slovo...

TITLE: RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots) AUTHOR: Karel Čapek, 1920No DRMLanguage: EnglishIllustratedGenre: Science Fiction PlayProduct Description:First performed in 1921, "RUR" is the seminal science fiction...

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