Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) - a famous German writer and director, an outstanding theorist of drama of the XX century. The collection includes "Three Penny Novel" (1934) - a prosaic, more complete "variation" on the theme of the play "Three Penny Opera," which brought the author great success, a chronicle of the Thirty Years War, one of the pearls of the drama of our century - "Mother Courage and her children" (1939), the drama parable "The Good Man from Sichuan" (1939-1941) and a play about the great scientist "Life of Galileo" (1939, 1946).