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A Czech Television film, following the footsteps of Karel Čapek in the UK. How has Great Britain changed over the years? 52 minutes, in Czech. For an English translation of the commentary, go to Titulky and Translate to English.
Dopisy od Karla Čapka. Po devadesáti letech putujeme po stopách Anglických listů Karla Čapka. Jak se za tu dobu změnila Velká Británie?
From the book:
"Escape", Letters from England (translated by Paul Selver, London, 1925). At the end of his trip in 1924 (he had arrived in England on 28th May, 2014) :
From "The English Park":
Karel Čapek, conceptual outline and draft article, "Maddening London", for The Evening News (London, 1924), written, soon after his arrival in London, in the form of a letter; printed, with a facsimile of the manuscript, in the book above (page 88-91), by Otakar Vočadlo, Prof. PhDr.:
I'm not sure (I am, of course) how the Scots would have felt about this article from The Manchester Guardian, 1924:
Letters from England: Views on London and Londoners by Karel Capek, Literary London
From another beautifully-written "Letter" about the shells and crystals in the Natural History Museum:
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