{"product_id":"2026770000421-secondhand-three-novels-hordural-an-ordinary-life-meteor","title":"Three Novels: Hordural · An Ordinary Life · Meteor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis landmark volume gathers three of Karel Čapek's most philosophically rich works of Czech literary fiction — Hordubal, An Ordinary Life, and Meteor — forming what is known as his celebrated Noetic Trilogy, a sequence united by a profound meditation on the nature of truth, identity, and human perception. Hordubal chronicles the tragic return of a Slovak peasant from years of labor in America, only to find his world irrevocably changed, unfolding with the quiet, devastating tension of a rural crime narrative. Meteor presents the same mysterious story of an unidentified man told through three radically different perspectives — a nun, a clairvoyant, and a poet — illustrating how subjective experience shapes and distorts reality. An Ordinary Life rounds out the trilogy with a retired railway official who, in writing his memoirs, uncovers a startling multiplicity of selves hidden beneath what he assumed was a simple, unremarkable existence. Together, the three novels argue with elegant, humanist conviction that no single account of a life — or a truth — can ever be complete, making this collection an essential cornerstone of twentieth-century European literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887929831643,"sku":"2026770000421-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f2ea2c8f-0d5e-46fc-9932-4fa426b17c55.png?v=1781749831","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026770000421-secondhand-three-novels-hordural-an-ordinary-life-meteor","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}