Author(s): Karel Capek

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An unjustly forgotten masterpiece of anti-utopian fantasy that is possibly the equal of Orwell's Animal Farm. Capek writes of an avaricious Dutch seaman who discovers a race of bipedal and intelligent newts in Sumatra that is initially lauded as the equal of the human race, but that is subsequently conscripted into the service of man and then... By turns hilarious and grim, but consistently and scathingly insightful into the nature of human nature, and a book that you simply must read.