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  • Life Of Galileo

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to the attention of the Inquisition. He is scared into publicly abjuring his theories but, despite his self-contempt, goes on working in private, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Threepenny Opera

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf - an amoral criminal - and his father in law, a racketeer who controls and exploits London's beggars and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Brecht In Context

    by John Willett ...
    New edition, revised for the centenary of Brecht's birth, containing additional updated materialIn this classic study, John Willett sets in context not only Brecht the theatre practitioner but Brecht the writer and man of his time. Through chapters on Brecht's relationships and attitudes to contemporary politics, English and American literature, Expressionism, music, art and cinema, as well as to ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Threepenny Opera

    by Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim, John Willett ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim, John Willett ...
    Series series Student Editions
    This Student Edition of Brecht's satire on the capitalist society of the Weimar Republic features an extensiveintroduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion ofthe context, themes, characters, style and language as well asquestions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text.It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.Based on John Gay's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Good Person Of Szechwan

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify their existence. They find Shen Teh, a good-hearted but penniless prostitute, and make her a gift that enables her to set up her own business. But her goodness brings ruin and she must disguise herself ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's compelling parable continues ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Brecht Collected Plays: 2

    Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett, Ralph Manheim, Gerhard Nellhaus, Chester Kallman, W. H. Auden ...
    Series Book 2 - World Classics
    Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of his most glittering Berlin successes including The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Seven Deadly Sins, Man ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • War Primer

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War IIIn this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism.He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Shapers of Worlds

    Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers

    by Edward Willett, Tanya Huff, John Scalzi, John C. Wright, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Julie E. Czerneda, Shelley Adina, Derek Künsken, Thoraiya Dyer, Gareth L. Powell, Seanan McGuire, Fonda Lee, Christopher Ruocchio, David Brin, D. J. Butler, Dr. Charles E. Gannon, David Weber, Joe Haldeman ...
    Series Book 1 - Shapers of Worlds
    Within these pages lie eighteen stories, from eighteen worlds shaped by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its first year. Some are international bestsellers. Among them are winners and nominees for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, Aurealis, Ditmar, British Science Fiction Association ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bertolt Brecht Journals, 1934-55

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett ...
    Translated by Hugh Rorrison ...
    Series series Diaries, Letters and Essays
    "Those who dismiss Brecht as a yea-sayer to Stalinism are advised to read these journals and moderate their opinion." (Paul Bailey, Weekend Telegraph)Brecht's "Work Journals" cover the period from 1938 to 1955, the years of exile in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and America, and his return via Switzerland to East Berlin. His criticisms of the work of other writers and intellectuals are perceptive and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Threepenny Opera

    by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill ...
    Translated by John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Student Editions
    One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble).Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho.With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • My Battery Is Low and It Is Getting Dark

    by Jacey Bedford, Kari Sperring, Stephen Leigh, William Leisner, John G. Hartness, Edward Willett, Dana Berube, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, Anthony Lowe, Chris Kocher, Brian Hugenbruch, Jose Pablo Iriarte, Alethea Kontis, Alexander Gideon ...
    A military attack drone turned shepherd. A train on the London Underground evolving into something new and wondrous. A troupe of robotic actors struggling to find meaning when the audience has disappeared. Explore the myriad ideas of what happens when out-of-date and abandoned technologies are given a second life—one that takes them in a new direction, far outside their intended programming and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD