Letters from England

By Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek was a Czech writer of the early 20th century. Letters from England is Čapek's collection of letters and illustrations from his travels around England. They convey a bemused admiration for England and the English.
This early work by Karel Čapek was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
• Release date: Apr 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781473392762

Karel Čapek

Karel Capek was born in 1890 in Czechoslovakia. He was interested in visual art as a teenager and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague. During WWI he was exempt from military service because of spinal problems and became a journalist. He campaigned against the rise of communism and in the 1930s his writing became increasingly anti-fascist. He started writing fiction with his brother Josef, a successful painter, and went on to publish science-fiction novels, for which he is best known, as well as detective stories, plays and a singular book on gardening, The Gardener’s Year. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times and the Czech PEN Club created a literary award in his name. He died of pneumonia in 1938.