Front Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Arthur Miller -- Introduction by Peter Kussi -- Chronology -- From the Point of View of a Cat -- Part I: SCIENCE AND UTOPIA -- R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) -- The Makropulos Secret -- Inventions -- Part II: THE NORMAL AND THE UNCANNY -- The Footprint -- Footprints -- Money -- Oplatka's End -- The Clairvoyant -- Mr. Janik's Cases -- The Mail -- Part III: ELUSIVE KNOWLEDGE -- In Praise of Idleness -- In Praise of Clumsy People -- A Cold -- Fires -- Cats -- The Stamp Collection -- The Crime at the Post Office -- The Blue Chrysanthemum -- The Poet -- Chintamani and Birds -- Pilate's Creed -- The Five Loaves -- Part IV: THE MEASURE OF MAN -- From the Life of the Insects-Act II -- On Literature -- Soil and the Gardener -- Legs and the Gardener -- The English Park -- Traffic -- The Fairbanks Smile -- Goodwill -- Part V: TOWARD THE RADICAL CENTER -- Let's Be Revolutionary -- Children of the Poor -- The Mother -- At the Crossroads of Europe -- English-Language Translations -- About Karel Capek -- About Peter Kussi and Arthur Miller -- About Garrigue Books.