Threepenny NovelPenguin, 1972 - 364 Seiten 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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... profits . Estimating these roughly he groaned so loudly that a passer - by outside asked if he were ill . Actually Peachum was henceforth far less concerned with the thought of the ruinous loss that had almost overwhelmed him than with ...
... profits . Estimating these roughly he groaned so loudly that a passer - by outside asked if he were ill . Actually Peachum was henceforth far less concerned with the thought of the ruinous loss that had almost overwhelmed him than with ...
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... profit from the fact that they wouldn't know where to go if I threw them out on to the streets . I work them as hard as I can and draw my profits from them . They must feel a pressing need for help . So perhaps I could make still more ...
... profit from the fact that they wouldn't know where to go if I threw them out on to the streets . I work them as hard as I can and draw my profits from them . They must feel a pressing need for help . So perhaps I could make still more ...
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... profits today , perhaps he makes even bigger profits than formerly , but under what humiliating conditions ! He must first stick cigars into his managers ' filthy mouths and then drum into their heads what they are to say to the ...
... profits today , perhaps he makes even bigger profits than formerly , but under what humiliating conditions ! He must first stick cigars into his managers ' filthy mouths and then drum into their heads what they are to say to the ...
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