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Karel Capek Fairy Tales - With One Extra as a Makeweight and Illustrated by Joseph Capek

Karel Capek Fairy Tales - With One Extra as a Makeweight and Illustrated by Joseph Capek

by Karel Capek and Josef Capek
Hardback
Publication Date: 19/02/2013

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ISBN:
9781447478386
9781447478386
Category:
Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
19-02-2013
Publisher:
Read Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
290
Dimensions (mm):
216x140x20mm
Weight:
0.52kg
Karel Capek

Karel Capek was born in 1890 in Czechoslovakia. He was interested in visual art as a teenager and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague. During WWI he was exempt from military service because of spinal problems and became a journalist. He campaigned against the rise of communism and in the 1930s his writing became increasingly anti-fascist.

He started writing fiction with his brother Josef, a successful painter, and went on to publish science-fiction novels, for which he is best known, as well as detective stories, plays and a singular book on gardening, The Gardener’s Year. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times and the Czech PEN Club created a literary award in his name. He died of pneumonia in 1938.

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