- Czech Science fiction, Science fiction, Czech Satire, Translations into English
<p>The Czech writer <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/karel-capek">Karel Čapek</a> wrote his novel <i>Továrna na absolutno</i> in 1922. It was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1927 as <i>The Absolute at Large</i>.
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Cool, classical in form, plot-driven and ironic.
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- Author
- Karel Čapek
- First published
- 1922
- Pages
- 232
- Publisher
- Rehak, David, Bison Books, Independently Published
- Editions
- 42
- Language
- cze, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781724492456
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“ON New Year's Day, 1943, C. H. Bondy, head of the great Metallo-Electric Company, was sitting as usual reading his paper.”
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