The Adventurous Simplicissimus / being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim
by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
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Being the Description of the Life of a Strange Vagabond Named Melchoir Sternfels Von FuchshaimSimplicissimus, which has more than once been called the greatest of all German novels, has a terrible relevance in the America of today, writes Eric Bentley in his preface to this edition. "For the Thirty Years' War, which is its subject, was not just any war. It was a war which inflicted death not on individuals only but on cities, on populations, and it was a war in which life went on, between battles, in the seventeenth-century equivalent of deep shelters protected from the neighbors by machine gu...
Chapters (25)
- Simplicissimus
- Der Abentheursiche
- SIMPLICISSIMUS Teutsch
- Das ist: Die Beschreibung dess Lebes eines seltzamen Vaganten / genant Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim / wo und welcher gestalt Er nemlich in diese Welt kommen / was er darinn gesehen / gelernet / erfahren und aussgestanden / auch warumb er solche wieder feywillig quittirt. Überauss lustig / und männiglich nutzlich zu lesen. An Tag geben Von German Schleifheim von Sulsfort.
- Monpelgart / Gedruckt bey Johann Fillion / Im Jahr M DC LXIX.
- Facsimile title page of the first German Edition.
- THE ADVENTUROUS
- Simplicissimus
- BEING THE DESCRIPTION OF THE LIFE OF A STRANGE VAGABOND NAMED
- MELCHIOR STERNFELS VON FUCHSHAIM
- WRITTEN IN GERMAN BY
- HANS JACOB CHRISTOPH VON GRIMMELSHAUSEN
- AND NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME DONE INTO ENGLISH
- LONDON
- WILLIAM HEINEMANN
- MCMXII
- TO
- DR. OTTO SCHLAPP
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- END
- APPENDICES
- END
- FOOTNOTES:
- BALLANTYNE & COMPANY LTD Tavistock Street Covent Garden London
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