Karel Capek, Author, T. G. Masaryk, Author, Michael Henry Heim, Translator Catbird Press $15.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-945774-26-6
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk was already a grand old man in his 70s when the 32-year-old Capek began interviewing him in 1922. The decade before, Masaryk had crisscrossed Europe and the Atlantic whipping up support from foreign governments and expatriate...
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Karel Capek, Author, Norma Comrada, Translator Catbird Press $13.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-945774-34-1
Each time a devoted reader approaches a newly published book by Capek (War with the Newts) it is with some trepidation. Is this the book that will show the Czech writer (1890-1938) to have had weaknesses, redundancies? If there is such a book, this...
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Karel Capek, Author, Norma Comrada, Translator Catbird Press $14 (224p) ISBN 978-0-945774-54-9
Cross Roads contains two short story collections by beloved Czech author Karel Capek (1890-1938). The former, the previously untranslated Wayside Crosses, is more metaphysical in tone: its tropes include a lone footprint in the snow and a single...
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Karel Capek, Author, Norma Comrada, Translator Catbird Press $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-945774-55-6
Cross Roads contains two short story collections by beloved Czech author Karel Capek (1890-1938). The former, the previously untranslated Wayside Crosses, is more metaphysical in tone: its tropes include a lone footprint in the snow and a single...
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Karel Capek, Author, Norma Comrada, Translator Catbird Press $14.95 (365p) ISBN 978-0-945774-25-9
This newly translated collection of all Capek's mystery stories originally published in Czechslovakia in the late '20s is one of the great works of the mystery genre. In 48 gripping short works, Capek ( War with the Newts ) proves that he had not...
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