The Weavers, Hannele, The Beaver Coat.

New York, NY Rinehart & Company, 1951. Paperback First Edition Thus [1951], Third Printing [1959]. Six lines on one page in the Introduction by have very neatly UNDERLINED. Else, Very Good+ in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing to the panels; a small patch of sticker shadow at the upper corner of the front panel; a faint crease near the outside edge of the front panel; the expected light tanning to the text pages; the binding is square and secure. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. Shows mild wear and a couple of flaws, but in overall appearance remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7.3 x 4.9 x 0.55 inches). xxv, 218 pages. Translated from the German By Horst Frenz & Miles Waggoner. Introduction by Horst Frenz. Language: English. Weight: 7.5 ounces. Academic Press Paperback. This is a collection of three plays by German writer and dramatist, early pioneer of naturalism in the German theatre, and recipient of 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature. Gerhart Hauptmann (1862 - 1946). The Weavers (1892) raises social and moral issues of the misery of craftsmen as factories take over; it is the drama of a group rather than that of an individual. Hannele (1893) tells of an abused child's dying delirium, rendered in terms of her readings of fairy tales and the Bible. And, The Beaver Coat (1893) is a picaresque satire on Prussian bureaucracy in which a washerwoman discovers honest work alone is not a recipe for success in life. The three plays are preceded by Introduction, Bibliographical Note, and A Note on the Translation.