Research Catalog

Title

Short stories, 1921-1946 / Bertolt Brecht ; edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim ; translated by Yvonne Kapp, Hugh Rorrison, and Antony Tatlow.

Author

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

Publication

London ; New York : Methuen, 1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Willett, John
• Manheim, Ralph, 1907-1992
• Willett, John, 1917-2002

Description

xiii, 242 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• Plays, poetry, and prose / Bertolt Brecht
• Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Works. English. 1983

Uniform Title

Short stories. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subjects

• 1900-1999
• Short stories, German > 20th century
• Translations
• Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Note

• "Original work entitled Geschichten being Volume 11 of Gesammelte Werke of Bertolt Brecht"--T.p. verso.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Bargan gives up -- Story on a ship -- The revelation -- The stupid wife -- The blind man -- A helping hand -- Java Meier -- Lance-Sergeant -- Message in a bottle -- A mean bastard -- The death of Cesare Malatesta -- The answer -- Before the flood -- Conversation about the South Seas -- Letter about a mastiff -- Hook to the chin -- Müller's natural attitude -- North Sea shrimps -- Bad water -- A little tale of insurance -- Four men and a poker game -- Barbara -- The good lord's package -- The monster -- The job -- Safety first -- The soldier of La Ciotat -- A mistake -- Gaumer and Irk -- Socrates wounded -- The experiment -- The heretic's coat -- Lucullus's trophies -- The unseemly old lady -- A question of taste -- The Augsburg chalk circle -- Two sons -- Appendix : Life story of the boxer Samson-Körner.

ISBN

• 041337050X
• 0413528901 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^82014095^//r842

OCLC

• 8668862
• SCSB-12206883

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library