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Threepenny Novel
Threepenny Novel | Bertolt Brecht
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Threepenny Novel | Bertolt Brecht
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Where are the poor? The answer is: Everywhere. They hide themselves behind their own multitude. (...)They mostly work. That is the best way of hiding themselves. No one notices that they are unable to buy food to satisfy their hunger, because they never come into the shops to buy anything. (...) Adulterated food and too little of it, infected dwellings, repression of the natural instincts, all that takes a long time to destroy a man.

Hooked_on_books This would be a good nonfiction pairing, based on that quote 12mo
Leniverse @Hooked_on_books The Threepenny Novel is set to London during the Boer War, so late Victorian era. It's a satire over late-stage capitalism. And it seems to me that it is sadly relevant to the UK of today, and probably very much the US as well. 12mo
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BookwormM
Threepenny Novel | Bertolt Brecht
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#Reading1001 another one I forgot to review at the time. An interesting social commentary with satirical elements, a story that is still relevant today.