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The War with the Newts

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Imprint: Melville House Publishing
Publication Date: 2/01/2012
Place of Publication: United States

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Orwell meets Vonnegut in the simultaneously hilarious and chilling masterpiece from the man who invented the word "robot" This legendary but previously hard-to-get novel is a hilarious dystopian satire about the choice between ecological catastrophe and making your quarterly financial goals. As both a commentary on capitalism and the rise of fascism, as well as an early work of science fiction, it is one of the most important books of the twentieth century. When the curmudgeonly sailor Captain von Toch discovers a breed of large, intelligent newts in far-off Polynesia, he realizes that, with a little training, they could be used as a virtual army of complacent pearl-divers in shark-infested waters.

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

--Kurt Vonnegut

"I warmly recommend Mr. Capek's fantasy of a world conquered by newts... He writes like H.G. Wells, but with more wit and less horror."

--Graham Greene

"Capek's satirical view of the abysmal craziness in Europe has something absolutely magnificent about it."

--Thomas Mann

"The War With the Newts will never fall into oblivion... Capek is perhaps the first European writer whose novels anticipated the gruesome vision of a totalitarian world."

--Milan Kundera

"It is time to read Capek again for his insouciant laughter, and the anguish of human blindness that lies beneath it."

--Arthur Miller

"Proliific and terrific."

--George Bernard Shaw

Title: The War with the Newts
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Contributors: By (author) Karel Capek

ISBN 13: 9781612190235
ISBN 10: 1612190235

Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Imprint: Melville House Publishing
Publication Date: 2/01/2012
Place of Publication: Brooklyn, United States
Edition:

BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 891.86352 (DC22)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Weight: 367g