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War with the Newts

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241343456

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 258g

  • RRP: £9.99

War with the Newts

A darkly humorous Czech satire: a new super-breed tries to conquer the world...

War with the Newts (1936) is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early 20th-century Czech politics. Captain van Toch discovers a colony of newts in Sumatra which can not only be taught to trade and use tools, but also to speak. As the rest of the world learns of the creatures and their wonderful capabilities, it is clear that this new species is ripe for exploitation - they can be traded in their thousands, will do the work no human wants to do, and can fight - but the humans have given no thought to the terrible consequences of their actions.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241343456

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 258g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • A great writer of the past who speaks to the present in a voice brilliant, clear, honourable, blackly funny and prophetic

    Kurt Vonnegut

  • His satire still packs a punch, and the storytelling is brilliant.

    The Times

  • Sheds remarkable light on the literature, culture and politics of the region...anyone coming fresh to the field will be captivated by the richness, variety, humour and pathos of a classic literature that, through a shared historical experience, transcends national and linguistic boundaries.

    CJ Schüler, Independent on Sunday

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About the Author

Karel Capek

Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student.Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. In 1893 Conan Doyle published 'The Final Problem' in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of 'The Final Problem' but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. He was finally retired in 1927. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.

Karel Capek

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