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Title: Tales from Two Pockets by Norma Comrada, Karel Povidky Z Jedne Kapsy Capek ISBN: 0945774257 Publisher: Catbird Press Pub. Date: 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75
Rating: 5
Summary: Aptly translated into English from the original Czech
Comment: Aptly translated into English from the original Czech by Norma Comrada, Tales from Two Pockets is an anthology of 48 classic short stories by Karl Capek, each of which centers on the themes of mystery, solving puzzles and discovering deft culprits. Tales From Two Pockets is a mind-teasing, imaginative, and deftly woven collection which will aptly serve to introduce Capek to a new generation of readers, and is a "must" for anyone who appreciates a well and deftly written story.
Rating: 5
Summary: A fun book
Comment: I purchased this book on the recommendations of Amazon.com readers. I was not disappointed. Tales from Two Pockets is a collection of short-stories by Czech mystery writer and playwrite Karel Capek. The stories are delightful, with many humorous and unexpected twists. Each story is wholly different from the others, but all are brilliant and a joy to read.
Rating: 4
Summary: savor them slowly
Comment: My Brother-in-Law first mentioned this collection of stories by Karel Capek, one of the seminal Czech writers of the pre-Communist era, best known now, if at all, for originating the term "robot" in his 1920 play R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots. These stories, which originally began appearing in 1928 in his newspaper column, are all short mysteries; but they are a unique type of mystery. Capek is less interested in the mechanics of the mystery story itself than in the essential mysteries of human existence: a coded telegram makes a family doubt their daughter, a man is obsessed with footprints that disappear in the snow, a community is wonders why a certain woman is the only one who can find a certain type of blue flower, a stamp collection stolen in childhood is shown to have warped an old man's life, God sits in judgment on a condemned man, and so on. Some are really terrific, some merely amusing, but all are interesting, albeit brief, meditations on our perceptions of the appearance of things, how those appearances often mask a much different reality and how those perceptions shape us.
To my mind, this is a collection that is best read a story at a time, much as he wrote them. While they are somewhat interconnected, I found that reading several in succession was less enjoyable than savoring one a night or every couple of nights. Let them ripen this way and the tales leave behind some indelible images.
GRADE: B+
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Title: War With the Newts by Karel Capek, Ewald Osers ISBN: 0945774109 Publisher: Catbird Press Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Apocryphal Tales by Karel Capek, Norma Comrada ISBN: 0945774346 Publisher: Catbird Press Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Cross Roads by Karel Capek, Norma Comrada ISBN: 0945774540 Publisher: Catbird Press Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Three Novels: Hordubal, Meteor, an Ordinary Life by Karel Capek, R. Weatherall, M. Weatherall ISBN: 0945774087 Publisher: Catbird Press Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Talks With T.G. Masaryk by Michael Henry Heim, Karel Capek, Dora Round, T. G. President Masaryk Tells His Story Masaryk, T. G. Masaryk on Thought and Life Masaryk ISBN: 0945774265 Publisher: Catbird Press Pub. Date: 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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