Karel Capek is one of the most famous Czech writers. He is the author of novels, stories, plays, feuilletons, created with inexhaustible imagination and brilliant humor, which have won the hearts of readers from many countries around the world. This collection includes the author’s most famous works: the best stories, the fantastic play “R.U.R.” (it is in it that the word “robot”, which Chapek coined, first appears, and the story so familiar to us today about the uprising of machines against people is born) and, finally, the novel “The War with the Newts,” presented for the first time in a new translation. A bright, bizarre, extraordinary story about salamanders discovered on the lost islands by Captain van Toch, is considered the pinnacle of Capek's work and one of the best novels of the twentieth century.