Subject
Wealth -- Drama Books
Best books
Ferdinand Raimund
Das Mädchen aus der Feenwelt; oder, Der Bauer als Millionär
"Das Mädchen aus der Feenwelt; oder, Der Bauer als Millionär" by Ferdinand Raimund is a romantic fairy tale with music premiered in 1826. A fairy's daughter is banished to Earth and must reject all wealth to marry a poor man before her eighteenth birthday. When the simple farmer raising her discovers treasure and becomes corrupted by riches, magical forces intervene. Allegorical figures like Youth, Age, Envy, and Contentment shape the fates of lovers kept apart by greed, teaching lessons about true happiness and the dangers of material wealth.
Roi Cooper Megrue
It pays to advertise : $b A farcical fact in three acts
"It Pays to Advertise: A farcical fact in three acts" by Megrue and Hackett is a farce first presented in 1914. When an idle rich son announces his engagement, his disapproving father threatens disinheritance. The young man responds by launching a rival soap company to compete against his father's empire, armed only with borrowed money and a publicity agent's ambitious schemes. As advertising creates unexpected demand for a product that doesn't yet exist, debts mount and deceptions multiply, leading to surprising revelations about who's manipulating whom in this battle between father and son.
Recently surfaced classics