War With the Newts Author:Karel Capek "War With the Newts is Karel Capek's prophetic and stirring novel about man's fatal propensity to pervert the best things of the world - a novel in the great tradition of Lucian, Swift, and Voltaire, one of the very few truly enduring classics written in our time. Cape, the famous author of R.U.R., and perhaps Czechoslovakia's greatest writer, i... more »s the man who invented the word 'robot'; a writer who above all others of his time held up a polished mirror of wit and wisdom to mankind's most cherished foibles."« less