The Weavers, Hannele, The Beaver Coat.

New York, NY Rinehart & Company, 1951. Paperback First Edition Thus [1951], Third Printing [1959]. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the mildest rubbing to the panels; the text pages have tanned ever so slightly, due to aging; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the very mildest wear and an unobtrusive cosmetic imperfection. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very 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.