About the book: year / "The Threepenny Novel" (1934) is the only major prose work of the famous German playwright and theater theorist Bertolt Brecht. In it, Brecht’s favorite story about the bandit Macheath, nicknamed Macky the knife, which he had already addressed in the triumphant “The Threepenny Opera,” one of the most high-profile theatrical premieres of the century, found its most complete embodiment. Authorized translation from German by Valentin Stenich.