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The War with the Newts

Capek, Karel  more...
   

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.


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