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A Study Guide for Karel Capek’s R.U.R.

Cengage Learning Gale

A Study Guide for Karel Capek’s R.U.R., excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…

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The Absolute at Large

Karel Capek

2017 Reprint of 1927 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The Absolute at Large was first published in 1922. The novel begins on…

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Gardener’s Year - Illustrated by Josef Capek

Karel Capek

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

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Karel Capek: In Pursuit of Truth, Tolerance & Trust

Bohuslava R Bradbrook

A biography of Karel Capek, the liberal, anti-war Czech writer who advocated tolerance and mutual trust as the best ways to improve democratic human relations.

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I Had a Dog and a Cat - Pictures Drawn by Josef and Karel Capek

Karel Capek

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I Had a Dog and a Cat - Pictures Drawn by Josef and Karel Capek

Karel Capek

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Karel Capek Fairy Tales - With One Extra as a Makeweight and Illustrated by Joseph Capek

Karel Capek

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Karel Capek Fairy Tales - With One Extra as a Makeweight and Illustrated by Joseph Capek

Karel Capek

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R.U.R - Rossum’s Universal Robots

Karel Capek

R.U.R’ is the play that introduced the word ‘robot’ to the modern world, and many of the themes and questions raised by this production would go on to become staples…

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Masaryk erz hlt sein Leben: Gespr che mit Karel Capek

Karel Capek,Camill Hoffmann

Tom s Masaryk (1850-1937) war ein tschechischer Philosoph, Schriftsteller und Politiker sowie Mitbegr nder und erster Staatspr sident der Tschechoslowakei (1918-1935). Masaryk stammte aus einfachen Verh ltnissen. Er war Sohn…

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The Gardener’s Year

Karel Capek

a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening

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Toward The Radical Centre

Karel Capek,Peter Kussi

Capek’s best plays, stories, and columns take us from the social contributions of clumsy people to dramatic meditations on mortality and commitment. The Reader includes a new and, at last…

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Letters from England

Karel Capek

Anyone in search of England can do no better than to take up Karel Capek’s Letters from England. Humorous, insightful and imbued with a profound humanity, Capek’s letters convey a…

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R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

Karel Capek

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1923. (Theatre Guild library).

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Hordubal

Karel Capek,Otto Pick

Karel Capek (1890-1938) gilt als einer der wichtigsten tschechischen Schriftsteller. Reproduktion des Originals in neuer Rechtschreibung.

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Karel Capeks R.U.R. - Rossum Universal Robots: ins Deutsche ubersetzt und aktualisiert von Yehuda Shenef

Yehuda Shenef,Karel Capek

Dem Theaterstuck R.U.R. von Karel Capek [1890-1938] verdankt die Welt den Begriff des Roboter , dem bald hundert Jahre nach der Erstauffuhrung kein Mangel an Aktualitat nachgesagt werden kann. Capeks…

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The Absolute at Large

Karel Capek

A brilliant scientist invents the Karburator, a reactor that can create abundant and practically free energy. However, the Karburator’s super-efficient energy production also yields a powerful by-product the Absolute, the…

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Money and other stories

Karel Capek

In this extraordinary collection of nine stories, called in the original Czech Painful Tales (Trapne povidky), one of the masters of twentieth century fiction details human situations where the heartbreak…

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R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

Karel Capek

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1923. (Theatre Guild library).

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Kreuzwege

Otto Pick,Karel Capek

Kreuzwege ist ein unveranderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ernahrung, Medizin und weiteren Genres…

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The War with the Newts

Karel Capek

This is a darkly humorous commentary on the cruelty and venality of man, the folly of exploitation, and the seeds of conflict. As Europe moved ever closer to the Second…

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War with the Newts

Karel Capek

2017 Reprint of 1959 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. With a New Introduction by Lewis Gannett. Originally published in Czech in 1936…

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Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Capek and his Generation, 1911-1938

T. Ort,Ort

In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This…

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Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Capek and his Generation, 1911-1938

T. Ort

In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This…

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Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Capek and his Generation, 1911-1938

T. Ort

In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This…

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Nine Fairy Tales: & One More Thrown in for Good Measure

Karel Capek

Containing fairies, talking animals and supernatural beings, this is a collection of wise parables of Czech life.

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The Gardener’s Year

Karel Capek

a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening

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Karel Capeks Poetik der noetischen Detektion im Kontext seiner Pragmatismus-Rezeption

Alexander Borais

Karel Capek (1890-1938), Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, Kritiker und Journalist in einer Person, gehoert zu den wichtigsten und bekanntesten Reprasentanten der literarischen Moderne Osteuropas. Weniger bekannt ist hingegen die philosophische Dimension seines…

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R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

Karel Capek

We have Czech writer Karel Capek to thank for the invention of the word robot and generally for the introduction of the idea of artificial intelligence to the world of…

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Capek Four Plays: R. U. R.; The Insect Play; The Makropulos Case; The White Plague

Karel Capek

There was no writer like him… prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination (Arthur Miller)

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R. U. R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

Karel Capek

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Mordsgierig: Kriminalgeschichten aus vier Jahrhunderten

Edgar Allen Poe,Friedrich Schiller,Karel Capek

Wussten Sie, dass Krimis nicht erst seit Sherlock Holmes und Auguste Dupin in aller Munde sind? Schon Friedrich Schiller berichtete zu seiner Zeit aus dem Verbrechermilieu, Charles Dickens dokumentierte Polizeieinsatze…

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War With the Newts

Karel 1890-1938 Capek

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Karel 1890-1938 Capek

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A Study Guide for Karel Capek’s R.U.R.

The Absolute at Large

Gardener’s Year - Illustrated by Josef Capek

Karel Capek: In Pursuit of Truth, Tolerance & Trust

I Had a Dog and a Cat - Pictures Drawn by Josef and Karel Capek

I Had a Dog and a Cat - Pictures Drawn by Josef and Karel Capek

Karel Capek Fairy Tales - With One Extra as a Makeweight and Illustrated by Joseph Capek

Karel Capek Fairy Tales - With One Extra as a Makeweight and Illustrated by Joseph Capek

R.U.R - Rossum’s Universal Robots

Masaryk erz hlt sein Leben: Gespr che mit Karel Capek

The Gardener’s Year

Toward The Radical Centre

Letters from England

R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

Hordubal

Karel Capeks R.U.R. - Rossum Universal Robots: ins Deutsche ubersetzt und aktualisiert von Yehuda Shenef

The Absolute at Large

Money and other stories

R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

Kreuzwege

The War with the Newts

War with the Newts

Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Capek and his Generation, 1911-1938

Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Capek and his Generation, 1911-1938

Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Capek and his Generation, 1911-1938

Nine Fairy Tales: & One More Thrown in for Good Measure

The Gardener’s Year

Karel Capeks Poetik der noetischen Detektion im Kontext seiner Pragmatismus-Rezeption

R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

Capek Four Plays: R. U. R.; The Insect Play; The Makropulos Case; The White Plague

R. U. R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

Mordsgierig: Kriminalgeschichten aus vier Jahrhunderten

War With the Newts

War With the Newts

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