This book might not be the easiest book, it sure is a good book. The tale of Thiel is interesting, his tragic life is portrayed in a very human fashion and in the end I wondered, "wouldn't I have done the same thing if I were him?"

If you want to read a good book, with a tragic story this is the one for you.

This translation published by the German Library is unreadable. The first play, "Before Daybreak" reads like something you'd get from a piece of translation software. The "hick dialects" are so phoney and so blatantly done by an academic hack who has no idea how real country people talk that it's almost embarrassing to read. The book is a very expensive waste of effort: both yours if you buy it and the publisher's for printing it.