Money and other stories
MONEY
AND OTHER STORIES
Karel Capek
MONEY AND
OTHER STORIES
HUTCHINSON & CO. (Publishers) LIMITED
34–36 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E.C.
Printed in Great Britain at
The Mayflower Press, Plymouth. William Brendon & Son, Ltd.
FOREWORD
arel Čapek is best known to us English as the forceful and original author of R.U.R. and The Insect Play and for a diverting book of gently satirical impressions of English people and places. But, though young, he has already behind him a considerable body of work, and has earned an enviable reputation in Europe and America. He has a searching mind, a detached and lively fancy, and a real gift of expression. He is of the company that counts.
I have been asked to contribute a preface to this, his first book of short stories in the English language. But good wine needs no bush, and good stories no preface; all I am going to say is that I read them with very lively interest—they are penetrating, they are unusual, they have power, and they have flavour.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Certain of these short stories have already appeared in The London Mercury, The Fortnightly Review, The New Adelphi, The New Criterion, The London Aphrodite and Colour.
CONTENTS
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1929, before the cutoff of January 1, 1930. The longest-living author of this work died in 1974, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 50 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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