Legendární kniha Karla Čapka upravená pro účely edice zábavné výuky angličtiny. Je doplněna o anglický překlad, který můžete sledovat zrcadlově zároveň s českým textem. Speciální CD obsahuje celou knihu namluvenou rodilým mluvčím v klasické... Zobraziť viac
Anglické listy z roku 1924 přibližují Anglii a její svérázné obyvatele v črtách Karla Čapka, které původně vznikaly pro Lidové noviny. Jeho nadání vnímat každou drobnost vydalo pozoruhodný výsledek: cestopis ani po letech neztratil nic ze své svěžesti... Zobraziť viac
From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener's life... Zobraziť viac
I Had a Dog and a Cat’ is a delightful book – suitable for both children and adults, translated by Marie and Robert Weatherall, and illustrated by Josef and Karel Capek. It is a comical tome, dealing in detail with ... Zobraziť viac
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
One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the... Zobraziť viac
The Gardener's Year is a charming and light-hearted insight into the life of an amateur gardener. Structured loosely around what to plant, grow or cultivate each month, Karel Capek takes us on a rollicking journey through a year in his own small garden.. 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
From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener's life... Zobraziť viac
Učebnice přináší stručný medailon Karla Čapka, devět jeho adaptovaných povídek... Zobraziť viac
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, complete English translation of "R.U.R.," the play that... Zobraziť viac
Never have two such important world figures collaborated in a biography: Toma Garrigue Masaryk (18501937), the original philosopher-president who founded Czechoslovakia in 1918, and Karel Capek (18901938), the leading Czech writer of the time. Capek... Zobraziť viac
Detectives attempt to reconstruct a murder, three people tell stories about a dying man they really didn't know, and one man looks back on all the people he might have been." Zobraziť viac
Written during and right after World War I, this volume pairs two short story collections from Karel Capek, considered one of the greatest Czech writers. The first collection, Wayside Crosses, presents an agonized and unsuccessful search for God and... Zobraziť viac
R.U.R.—written in 1920—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot." Mass-produced, efficient and servile labor, Čapek's Robots remember everything, but lack creative thought, and the Utopian life they provide ultimately... Zobraziť viac
War with the Newts (1936) is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early twentieth-century Czech politics... Zobraziť viac
The stories in this collection tackle great events and figures of history, myth, and literature in unexpected ways, questioning views on such basic concepts as justice, progress, wisdom, belief, and patriotism. Zobraziť viac
