Furcht und Elend des III Reiches; together with letters to Eric Bentley

Item author: Berthold Brecht
Item date: 1941
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 7,000
Item date acquired: 1999
Item institution: Bodleian Library, Taylor Institution
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

An edition of grreat rarity, published in Moscow; only one other copy known in Western Europe. The letters, which are in typescript with handwritten greetings and comments by Brecht date from 1946 (the beginning of Brechts collaboration with his American translator) to 1955, a year before his death. They relate to a proposed collected English edition of Brechts works