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A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word robot

Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek’s Robots are an android product—they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of self-duplication. It is not until two Robots fall in love and are christened “Adam” and “Eve” by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best wo

Table of Contents
R.U.R.Introduction by Ivan Klima
R.U.R.
Cast
Prologue
Act One
Act Two
Act Three

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    A Paperback / softback by Karel Capek, Claudia Novack-Jones, Ivan Klima

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      Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/03/2004
      ISBN13: 9780141182087, 978-0141182087
      ISBN10: 0141182083
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word robot

      Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek’s Robots are an android product—they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of self-duplication. It is not until two Robots fall in love and are christened “Adam” and “Eve” by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant.

      For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best wo

      Table of Contents
      R.U.R.Introduction by Ivan Klima
      R.U.R.
      Cast
      Prologue
      Act One
      Act Two
      Act Three

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