Karel Čapek Boeken

"Met een in tuinboeken zeldzaam gevoel voor humor beschrijft de Tsjechische schrijver Karel Capek in Het jaar van de tuinier het wel en wee van de tuinier in de loop van de twaalf maanden van het jaar." Aldus Paul Geerts, schrijver van Tuinieren tussen de regels. Rake observaties en komische situatieschetsen - leest u vooral de passage over het gevecht met de tuinslang! - kenmerken dit schitterende boekje dat in 1929 voor het eerst in Praag verscheen, maar sindsdien nog niets aan kracht heeft ingeboet. De liefdevolle ironie waarmee alles wordt verteld, maakt Het jaar van de tuinier tot een juweeltje binnen de tuinliteratuur.

Translated by Dora Round Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937) was a philosophy professor who became the founder and first president of Czechoslovakia (1918-1935) and was a leading figure in world affairs between the wars. Capek, author of 'War with the Newts', and Czechoslovakia's most prominent writer during these years, interviewed Masaryk at great length and produced this volume that tells Masaryk's unique story.

Legendární kniha Karla Čapka upravená pro účely edice zábavné výuky angličtiny. Je doplněna o anglický překlad, který můžete sledovat zrcadlově zároveň s českým textem. Kniha je vynikající pomůckou při výuce angličtiny, zejména rozvíjí slovní zásobu a porozumění slyšenému slovu. Zároveň může být využita jako pomůcka i pro výuku češtiny pro cizice.

Like traditional fairy tales, Capek's fantastic parables contain marvels and supernatural beings, fairies, elves, and talking animals; their plots stem from folk traditions where innocence triumphs. At the same time, Capek infuses these tales with dazzling wordplay, an abundant sense of the absurd, and surprising futuristic twists. Fact and imagination, satire and fantasy are blended so skillfully that the line between logic and plausible nonsense is nearly indiscernible. These are not just children's tales but modern parables.

A classic children's story by the noted Czech writer and his artist brother.

Publikace vydaná u příležitosti stejnojmenné výstavy pořádané ve dnech 11.10. - 26.11.2000 v Jídelnách Obecního domu v Praze

Capek mystery stories from the 1920s are among the most enjoyable and unusual ever written though only a few have previously appeared in English and then only in poor translations. This new collection - admirably translated from the Czech by Norma Comrada - should introduce a whole new legion of admirers to this leading fiction writer, playwright and columnist whose work includes 'War with the Newts'.

"R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Czech: "Rossumovi univerzalni roboti") is a science fiction play originally written in the Czech language. It premiered in 1921 and is noted for introducing the term "robot" to the English language. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called "robots." Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, as they can be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves. They seem happy to work for humans, although that changes and a hostile robot rebellion leads to the extinction of the human race. After finishing the manuscript, The author realized that he had created a modern version of the Jewish Golem legend. He later took a different approach to the same theme in War with the Newts, in which non-humans become a servant class in human society. R.U.R is dark but not without hope and was successful in its day in both Europe and the United States. Translation by David Wyllie."