Believe in people : the essential Karel Čapek : previously untranslated journalism and letters / selected and translated with an introduction by Šárka Tobrmanová-Kühnová ; preface by John Carey.

London : Faber, 2010.

xxxi, 358 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the Czech.

This selection of Čapek's writing, translated into English, 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.

9780571231621 (pbk)

891.868 CAP
891.868 CAP

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