Bertolt Brecht
Author
Series
Evergreen black cat book ; BC116
Language
English
Description
The people of two farms in Georgia (Republic of Russia) debate over land ownership in a socialistic society. The play raises the question of private property; of who bears the right to ownership. Should something (someone) be owned by the one who possesses it? Or, by the one who can make the best use of it?
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
One day three Gods come down to Earth in Szechwan China, travelling the world in search of good persons. They meet an indigent man, a water carrier named Wang, and ask him to find someone who will put them up for the night. After getting refused repeatedly, Wang at last finds someone to host these gentlemen, a prostitute named Shen-Teh.....
17) Selected poems
Author
Series
Evergreen pilot books ; no. 187
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publ
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Long unavailable in this country, Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti comprises some of the best comedy that Bertolt Brecht wrote for the theater and contains one of his great characters. For his complexity and vitality, Mr. Puntila ranks on a par with Brecht's indelible Galileo and Mother Courage. A hard-drinking landowner, Puntila suffers from a split personality: when drunk, he is friendly and humane; when he sobers up, he is intolerable - ruthless,...
