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Bertolt Brecht's "Threepenny Novel" followed the success of his play, the "Threepenny Opera," which premiered in Germany in 1928. The Opera soon became an international hit, performed all over Europe. The novel was published five years later in 1933. The characters are the same: gangster Macheath, his archenemy Peachum and his daughter Polly. But now, Macheath has changed his tune...“Threepenny Novel” is a bitter satire of capitalism and politics, written during the Nazi period but as current as ever.
Bertolt Brecht wrote the "Threepenny Novel" while living in exile in Denmark in 1934. He was one of many authors whose works were publicly destroyed in Nazi book burnings in May 1933.He had escaped the Nazis with his family in February 1933.

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