Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. Collaboration, Affinity, and Original Creativity -- II. The Augsburg Years -- III. Learning from Kipling: The Lyrics -- IV. Exploiting Kipling's Prose -- V. Brecht's "Many Inventions" using Leopold Lindau's Translations -- VI. The Berlin Years -- VII. The World of "Man is Man" -- VIII. "Rudyard Brecht": The Late Twenties -- IX. Kipling in a Marxist World -- X. The Final Years -- XI. "Never the Twain shall meet"? - Conclusions -- Appendices -- Works consulted -- Index