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Collected Stories

BRECHT, Bertolt

1998

 

Autor(es): BRECHT, Bertolt
Título: Collected Stories
Publicação: New York: Arcade Publishing, 1998
ISBN: 1-55970-402-0
Assunto(s):
BRECHT, Bertolt (1898-1956)
Teatro -- Dramaturgia -- Peças de Teatro

 

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Introduction
THE BAVARIAN STORIES (1920-1924)
Bargan gives up – 3
Story on a Ship – 16
The Revelation – 18
The Foolish Wife – 19
The Blind Man – 21
A Helping Hand – 25
Java Meier – 29
The Lance-Sergeant – 38
Message in a Bottle – 42
A Mean Bastard – 43
The Death of Cesare Malatesta – 49
THE BERLIN STORIES (1924-1933)
The Answer – 57
Before the Flood – 59
Conversation about the South Seas – 61
Letter about a Mastiff – 63
Hook to the Chin – 68
Miil1er’s Natural Attitude – 72
North Sea Shrimps – 77
Bad Water – 85
A Little Tale of Insurance – 90
Four Men and a Poker Game – 94
Barbara – 100
The Good Lord’s Package – 104
The Monster – 107
The Job – 112
STORIES WRITTEN IN EXILE (1934-1948)
Safety First – 119
The Soldier of La Ciotat – 129
A Mistake – 131
Gaumer and Irk – 135
Socrates Wounded – 139
The Experiment – 153
The Heretic’s Coat – 162
Lucullus’s Trophies – 170
The Unseemly Old Lady – 178
A Question of Taste – 183
The Augsburg Chalk Circle – 188
Two Sons – 200
APPENDIX
Life Story of the Boxer Samson-Korner – 207
EDITORIAL NOTES
The Principle Collections of Brecht’s Short Stories – 227
Notes on Individual Stories – 230
Index of Titles in German – 241
THE TRANSLATORS
Yvonne Kapp pages 129-131, 139-170, 178-182, 188-203.
Hugh Rorrison pages 57-129, 131-138.
Antony Tatlow pages 3-53, 183-187.
John Willett pages 170-178, 207-224.