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  • Gardener's Yearby Karel Capek

    Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 110.00

    It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant., nor the faintest interest in acquiring one. The GardenerGÇÖs Year is a charismatic product of Karel CapekGÇÖs genius: amusing, informative,... more...

  • R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)by Karel Capek; Claudia Novack-Jones

    Penguin Group Inc. 2004; US$ 10.00

    R.U.R.?written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922?garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot . Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, ?Capek?s Robots are an android product?they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately... more...

  • Apocryphal Talesby Karel Capek; Norma Comrada

    Catbird Press 1997; US$ 9.99

    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. more...

  • Cross Roadsby Karel Capek; Norma Comrada

    Catbird Press 2002; US$ 9.99

    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 truth. These metaphysical tales are not about finding God as much as they are about discovering man?s... more...

  • Tales from Two Pocketsby Karel Capek; Norma Comrada

    Catbird Press 1994; US$ 9.99

    Capek wrote 48 stories that deconstruct the mystery story by breaking one rule here, three rules there, and yet also make for wonderful reading. His unique approaches to the mysteries of justice and truth are full of the ordinary and the extraordinary, humor and humanism. more...

  • Talks with T. G. Masarykby Karel Capek; Michael Henry Heim

    Catbird Press 1995; US$ 9.99

    Never have two such important world figures collaborated in a biography: Tomá? Garrigue Masaryk (1850?1937), the original philosopher-president who founded Czechoslovakia in 1918, and Karel Capek (1890?1938), the leading Czech writer of the time. Capek interviewed Masaryk over a number of years and produced a single narrative that tells Masaryk's... more...

  • Believe in Peopleby ?arka Tobrmanova-Kuhnova; Karel Capek

    Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 18.94

    A hugely engaging collection of pieces by Karel Capek, one of the great European writers of the last century. more...

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