Karel Čapek

“ As a dramatist, Karel Capek already has become known to a considerable portion of the American public. Kraknitt, however, is his first full length novel published in English on this side of the Atlantic. And while it is a wildly imaginative book, which defies exact classification, it is so powerfully written that it has a sustaining interest for the discriminating reader.
Engineer Prokep, the central character, as a scientist, has searched so deeply into the secret heart of nature that he has achieved a formula for a destructive agency so terrible as to make him omnipotent. ”

“ By them Propok is imprisoned, but finally escapes to be nursed back to health by the daughter of an old country doctor. This interlude is one of the most charming parts of the story.
But Propok cannot stop for tenderness. ”