František Antonín Count Kostka of Kostka is a descendant of a noble family living in New York. After the fall of the communist regime, he returns to Bohemia with his American wife Vivien and daughter Marie (III.) to take over the family seat. In addition to the castle, the count's family ‘inherits’ the staff: a reactionary castellan, a hypochondriac gardener and a cook who likes to click and...

The War with the Newts develops over a long period of time as a collage of newspaper clippings and other brilliantly parodied records about the miraculous Newts who learn to speak, work, and behave like humans, only lacking the ability to think creatively. Behind the seemingly entertaining and witty satire on newspaper sensationalism, what Capek considered the greatest danger to human...

Capek's novel Krakatit is based on a similar invention to the one described by the author in The Absolute Factory. The inventor Prokop discovers a way to let any substance disintegrate into atoms. The explosion releases a huge amount of energy. He produces a substance called krakatit - the most terrible explosive in the world, which can be detonated remotely using electromagnetic waves. Prokop...

A narrative book about the most famous Prague native, Franz Kafka, brings his life and work closer to everyone who wants to get to know his world in more detail. The world of Prague German-written literature, the world of his interests, family and friends, and also the world of very special stories come to life, which still puzzle readers and experts at their word. The author of the text is the...

A cute but inexperienced puppy sets off on an adventurous journey into the world around him. He meets the sun, a duck, bees and frogs. Sometimes it's happy, sometimes sad and sometimes it hurts - just life! But everything turns out as it should in the end.

A little girl, Aja, got a tiny, cute puppy from her parents. They named him Rek, but Aja couldn't pronounce the R and started calling him Fek, which then led to the dog's definitive name - Fík. The puppy grew and grew until he turned out to be a giant maxipes. In seven stories, you will learn about Fík's wisdom, how he collected laurels at the racetrack, how he went to school, and even got...