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Threepenny Novel (Penguin Modern Classics)
Bertolt Brecht
Summary
Based on a German translation of John Gay's "Beggar's opera", this work (originally presented in dramatic form as "The threepenny opera") is a satire on the decayed capitalism of the 1930s but set in the London of the 1900s.
Based on a German translation of John Gay's "Beggar's opera", this work (originally presented in dramatic form as "The threepenny opera") is a satire on the decayed capitalism of the 1930s but set in the London of the 1900s.
Highlights
- Easy to enjoy: 365 pages · Paperback
- By Bertolt Brecht
Details
- ISBN: 0140015159
- Author: Bertolt Brecht
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 365
- Language: English
- Publication date: 28 June 1973
- Condition: Used – Very Good
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Based on a German translation of John Gay's "Beggar's opera", this work (originally presented in dramatic form as "The threepenny opera") is a satire on the decayed capitalism of the 1930s but set in the London of the 1900s.

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