Written against the background of the rise of Nazism, War With the Newts concerns the discovery in the South Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, which is enslaved and exploited by mankind. In time they rebel, laying siege to the strongholds of their ... Zobraziť viac
A darkly humorous Czech satire: a new super-breed tries to conquer the world. War with the Newts (1936) is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early 20th-century Czech politics... Zobraziť viac
