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The rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny

As they flee the police, the widow Leocadia Begbick and two crooks become stranded in the desert. Unable to advance or retreat, they decide to found the city of Mahagonny. There, Widow Begbick employs a business model that is at once simple and profitable: men will become ensnared in the city’s web only to be relieved of their gold in its bars and bordellos. After seven years of hard labour spent in Alaska, lumberjack Jim Mahoney tries his luck in Mahagonny. He falls in love with a whore, ...

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