War with the Newts by Karel Čapek

War with the Newts

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  • Genre Classics
  • Publisher Northwestern University Press
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  • Size 2.76 MB
  • Length 367 Pages

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War with the Newts (Válka s mloky in the original Czech), also translated as War with the Salamanders, is a 1936 satirical science fiction novel by Czech author Karel Čapek. It concerns the discovery in the Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, an intelligent breed of newts, who are initially enslaved and exploited. They acquire human knowledge and rebel, leading to a global war for supremacy. There are obvious similarities to Čapek's earlier R.U.R., but also some original themes.

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