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  • 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

    $16.99 CAD

  • 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

    $16.99 CAD

  • 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

    $16.99 CAD

  • 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

    $16.99 CAD

  • Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - and Germany's greatest poet of the last century, but the playwright was also a dazzling writer of stories. Storytelling permeated his art as a dramatist; fundamentally in his plays he was a storyteller. This volume collects the complete short ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • 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

    $15.99 CAD

  • Mother Courage and Her Children

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by John Willett ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The Berlin production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Life Before Us

    by Romain Gary, James Laughlin ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Now back in print, this heartbreaking novel by Romain Gary has inspired two movies, including the Netflix feature The Life AheadMomo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores’ children at Madame Rosa’s boarding house in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and as Madame Rosa becomes too ill to climb the stairs to their apartment, he ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • 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

    $37.99 CAD

  • Bound to Violence

    A Novel

    by Yambo Ouologuem ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    This critical edition of the epic 1968 Malian novel explores its enduring literary power and the racist plagiarism scandal that devastated its author, the first African winner of France’s prestigious Renaudot Prize.An engrossing, tragic tale spanning the thirteenth to the twentieth century, Bound to Violence recounts the fate of the imaginary empire of Nakem and the dynasty of the Saïfs who reign ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Art and the Creative Unconscious

    The Collected Essays of Erich Neumann, Volume 1

    by Erich Neumann ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A landmark account of how artistic expression arises from the collective unconsciousThis book brings together four essays by analytical psychologist Erich Neumann, who explores the connections between creativity and the unconscious mind. The archetypes of the collective unconscious, he argues, are intrinsically formless psychic components that take form in art. The psychology of the individual in ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Great Mother

    An Analysis of the Archetype

    by Erich Neumann ...
    Narrated by Mark Meadows ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections

    Unabridged

    10 hours 29 min

    This audiobook narrated by Mark Meadows gives an illuminating account of the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psycheIn this book, renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how the archetype of the Great Mother has been outwardly expressed in many cultures and periods since prehistory. He shows how ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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