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The Gardener's Year (Hardcover)
Karel Capek; Illustrated by Josef Capek; Translated by Marie Weatherall, Robert Weatherall
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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. Complete
and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series
of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These
beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.
This edition features lively black and white illustrations by Czech
artist Josef Capek and is translated by M. and R. Weatherall. From
making puddles with an untamable hose to sowing luxuriant weeds
instead of grass, Capek reveals how a gardener grows into his
surroundings 'spurred on by each new failure'. Subverting the
tradition of a 'how to' gardening book, he teaches his readers
about the magic of seeds, the perils of planting vegetables and the
thrilling surprises of a rock garden. As the year progresses and
frail buds turn from flowering stems to drooping bulbs and falling
leaves, Capek's small garden buzzes with life, wisdom and humour.
The Absolute at Large By KAREL CAPE. First published in
1927.CONTENTS: CHAPTER PAOBI The Advertisement 7 The Karbitrator n
Pantheism 17IV. God in the Cellar, 23V Bishop Linda 29VI The
BoardMeeting 36VII Developments 41VIII The Dredge 46IX The Ceremony
53X Saint Ellen 59XI. The First Blow Struck 64XII Doctor Blahous
70XIII The Chroniclers Apology 75XIV The Land of Plenty 80XV
Disaster 86XVI In the Mountains 92XVII The Hammer and Star 98XVIII,
In the Night Editors Room 102XIX. The Process of Canonization 108XX
St Kilda 113XXI The Telegram 119XXII The Old Patriot 124XXIII. The
Augsburg Imbroglio 130CONTENTSCHAPTER PAGEXXIV. The Napoleon of the
MountainBrigade 136XXV. The socalled Greatest War 141XXVI. The
Battle of Hradec Kralove 145XXVII. A Coral Island in the Pacific
150XXVIII. At Seven Cottages 155XXIX. The Last Battle 159XXX. The
End of Everything 163. CHAPTER I: THE ADVERTISEMENT. ONE New Years
Day, 1943, G H Bondy, head of the great Metallo Electncal Company,
was sitting as usual reading his paper He skipped the news from the
theatre of war rather disrespectfully, avoided the Cabinet crisis,
then crowded onsail for the Peoples Journal, which had grown long
ago tofive times its ancient size, now afforded enough canvas for
an ocean voyage for the Finance and Commerce section Here he
cruised about for quite a while, then furled his sails, and
abandoned himself to his thoughtsThe Coal Crisis he said to himself
Mines getting worked out the Ostrava basin suspending work for
years.Heavens above, its a sheer disaster Well have to importUpper
Silesian coal. Just work out what that will add to thecost of our
manufactures, and then talk about competition.Were in a pretty fix
And if Germany raises her tariff, wemay as well shut up shop And
the Industrial Banks goingdown, too What a wretched state of
affairs What a hopeless, stupid, stifling state of affairs Oh, damn
the crisisHere G H Bondy, Chairman of the Board of Directors, came
to a pause Something was fidgeting him and would nollet him rest He
traced it back to the last page of his discardednewspaper It was
the syllable TioNj only part of a word, fothe fold of the paper
came just in front of the T. It was thivery incompleteness which
had so curiously impressed itselupon him. Well, hang it, its
probably IRON PRODUCTION Bondpondered vaguely, or PREVENTION, or,
maybe, RESTITUTION. . . And the Azote shares have gone down, too.
The stagnations simply shocking. The positions so bad that
itridiculous . But thats nonsense who would advertisethe
RESTITUTION of anything? More likely RESIGNATION Itssure to be
RESIGNATION.With a touch of annoyance, G H Bondy spread out
thenewspaper to dispose of this irritating word It had nowvanished
amid the chequering of the small advertisements Hehunted for it
from one column to another, but it had concealeditself with
provoking ingenuity. Mr. Bondy then worked fromthe bottom up, and
finally started again from, the righthandside of the page.
Karel apek's brilliant comic and satirical novel of 1936 deals with
the discovery of a sentient race of newts or salamanders, and their
subsequent transition from fairground sideshow to forced labour to
ferocious enemies of the human race. Along the way he pokes fun at
a whole range of targets, from the superficiality of Hollywood to
the arrogance of scientists. He also deals with serious subjects
such as racism, imperialism and exploitation, and is positively
prophetic on the threat of expansionism and the folly of
appeasement. This handsome new edition from Benediction Classics
uses the acclaimed 2002 translation from the Czech by David Wyllie,
with original illustrations.
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. Captain van
Toch discovers a colony of newts in Sumatra which can not only be
taught to trade and use tools, but also to speak. As the rest of
the world learns of the creatures and their wonderful capabilities,
it is clear that this new species is ripe for exploitation - they
can be traded in their thousands, will do the work no human wants
to do, and can fight - but the humans have given no thought to the
terrible consequences of their actions.
Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag
tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION
CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu
einem Grossteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhaltlich.
Mit TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende
Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als
gedruckte Bucher zu verlegen - und das weltweit Die Buchreihe dient
zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie tragt so
dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten
Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag
tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION
CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu
einem Grossteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhaltlich.
Mit TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende
Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als
gedruckte Bucher zu verlegen - und das weltweit Die Buchreihe dient
zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie tragt so
dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten
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 former masters in a
global war for supremacy. R.U.R., or Rossum's Universal Robots,
seen by many as a modern interpretation of the 'golem' myth, is
regarded as the most important play in the history of SF. It
introduced the word 'robot' and gave the genre one of its most
enduring tropes.
Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag
tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION
CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu
einem Grossteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhaltlich.
Mit TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende
Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als
gedruckte Bucher zu verlegen - und das weltweit Die Buchreihe dient
zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie tragt so
dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten
Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps
the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright,
famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play RUR, Capek was a
vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of Czechoslovakia of
the 1920s and 30s. But it is in his journalism - his brief, sparky
and delightful columns - that Capek can be found at his most
succinct, direct and appealing. This selection of Capek's writing,
translated into English for the first time, contains his essential
ideas. The pieces are animated by his passion for the ordinary and
the everyday - from laundry to toothache, from cats to cleaning
windows - his love of language, his lyrical observations of the
world and above all his humanism, his belief in people. His letters
to his wife Olga, also published here, are extraordinarily moving
and beautifully distinct from his other writings. Uplifting,
enjoyable and endlessly wise, Believe in People is a collection to
treasure.
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