02276nam 2200577 a 450 991081499770332120240516165114.01-84150-670-2(CKB)2550000000103191(EBL)922472(OCoLC)794328925(SSID)ssj0000678550(PQKBManifestationID)11405291(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678550(PQKBWorkID)10727013(PQKB)11647924(MiAaPQ)EBC922472(Au-PeEL)EBL922472(CaPaEBR)ebr10565423(CaONFJC)MIL884722(EXLCZ)99255000000010319120120612d2012 uy dengur|n|---|||||txtccrOctave Mirbeau two plays : Business is business ; &, Charity /translated & adapted by Richard J. Hand1st ed.Bristol [England] Intellect20121 online resource (210 p.)Playtext series,1754-0933Description based upon print version of record.1-84150-486-6 Business is business -- Charity.Octave Mirbeau was born in Trévières, Normandy, on 16 February 1848. He had a quiet childhood, which seemingly came to an abrupt end when he was sent to a Jesuit college at Vannes in 1859. The next four years were a miserable experience for the young Mirbeau, and the barbarity, tyranny and snobbery he encountered there - which seemed to him a microcosm of French society - would never be far from his writing for the rest of his life. Mirbeau registered to study law at university in 1866 but in 1868 would claim that 'he had been eating nothing and smoking up to 180 pipes of opium a day' (Levi, 1Playtext series.French dramaInterpersonal relationsDramaFrench drama.Interpersonal relations842.8Mirbeau Octave1848-1917.201935Hand Richard J1604439MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814997703321Octave Mirbeau3929273UNINA