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R.U.R. Study Guide

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by Karel Čapek
About 48 pages (14,473 words)
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) Summary

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Abrash, Merritt, "R.U.R. Restored and Reconsidered" in Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 32, no. 2, Summer 1991, pp. 184-92.

This article offers a comparison between translations and suggests that in early translations as much as twenty-five percent of the text was censored to removed suggestive sexual or political content.

Harkins, William E., Karel Capek, Columbia University Press, 1962.

This is the only book-length biography of Capek in English......

This is a free excerpt of 71 words. This section contains 141 words. This study guide contains 14,473 words (approx. 48 pages at 300 words per page).

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