Download or read book Threepenny Novel written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1972 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a German translation of John Gay's "Beggar's opera", this work (originally presented in dramatic form as "The threepenny opera") is a satire on the decayed capitalism of the 1930s but set in the London of the 1900s.