5/30/2023 0 Comments War with the Newts by Karel Čapek![]() ![]() ‘Quirky’ – wash my mouth out – is probably how a committee of studio executives would describe a major motion picture adaptation of War with the Newts. However the absence of the first contents page in this volume seemed to go beyond quirky. (Contrast with the Penguin Decades, all reset and with new introductions.) No doubt cost control is a part of this, and I’d rather have the books like this than not at all. And what a series it is! Three hits out of three so far makes me sound like a bit of an uncritical fanboy, so I had better point out that I was disappointed by the lack of introductions or other critical apparatus to the ten books in the series, and the fact that most had not been reset but used the old type from earlier editions. M and R Weatherall, 1937) is published as part of Penguin’s Central European Classics series. Why haven’t people been pressing Karel Čapek’s War with the Newts on me since I was old enough to read? (Yes, you see: it’s all your fault.) In fairness, people who did know the book were enthusiastic when I said I was reading it. ![]() ![]() Every so often a book comes along that leaves you dizzy with wonder that you haven’t read it before. ![]()
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