The Adventurous Simplicissimus
Title | The Adventurous Simplicissimus PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 460 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Adventure fiction, German |
ISBN |
The life of a strange adventurer named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim: namely where and in what manner he came into this world, what he saw, learned, experienced, and endured therein ; also why he again left it of his own free will.
The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
Title | The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 496 |
Release | 2018-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141982128 |
'Gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and lust' Thomas Mann A story of war in all its absurdity and horror, this incomparable novel describes the fortunes of a young boy travelling through a world ravaged by conflict, and the terrible things he witnesses. Written by someone who fought in the Thirty Years War which decimated Europe in the seventeenth century, it combines brutal, documentary realism with fantastical, knockabout humour to depict a universe turned upside down. This pioneering work of fiction is considered to be the first great German novel. Translated by J. A. Underwood with an Introduction by Kevin Cramer
The Life of Courage
Title | The Life of Courage PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Mitchell |
Publisher | SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | 154 |
Release | 2010-09-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1907650024 |
A companion volume to Simplicissimus: the story of young girl named Courage, caught up in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War, who survives, even prospers, by the use of her native cunning and sexual attraction. Completely amoral, she flits through a succession of husbands and lovers and ends her life with a band of Gypsies. The conceit here is that Courage supposedly tells her story to get back at Simplicissimus, who treats her dismissively in his own memoirs. This is a remorseless tale of lechery, knavery and trickery.
An Unabridged Translation of Simplicius Simplicissimus
Title | An Unabridged Translation of Simplicius Simplicissimus PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen |
Publisher | Monte Frederick Adair |
Total Pages | 618 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 |
ISBN |
Adventures of a Simpleton
Title | Adventures of a Simpleton PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2002-10-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780826414823 |
Simplex starts out in life as innocent as any child - even more so. But then the soldiers came. And Simplex takes his first stumbling step out into the wide world. He is pressed into service as a court jester and carried off by the Croats. He fights in the war, now on this side, now on that. As a fancy-free lighthearted gallant, he slips into a pretty girl's boudoir only to be escorted from it the same night as a trapped and heavyhearted husband. He acquires great wealth by robbery and sinks into poverty out of magnanimity.
The New Southern Gentleman
Title | The New Southern Gentleman PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Booth |
Publisher | Watchmaker Publishing |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780972178600 |
"Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover
Joannes Burmeister
Title | Joannes Burmeister PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Fontaine |
Publisher | Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | 293 |
Release | 2015-07-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9462700087 |
First critical edition of Burmeister's newly discovered Aulularia Joannes Burmeister of Lüneburg (1576–1638) was among the greatest Neo-Latin poets of the German Baroque. His masterpieces, now mostly lost, are Christian ‘inversions’ of the Classical Roman comedies of Plautus. With only minimal changes in language and none in meter, each transforms Plautus’s pagan plays into comedies based on biblical themes. Fascinating in their own right, they also bring back to attention forgotten genres of Renaissance literature. This volume offers the first critical edition of the newly discoveredAulularia (1629), which exists in a sole copy, and the fragments of Mater-Virgo(1621), which adapts Plautus’s Amphitryo to show the Nativity of Jesus. The introduction offers reconstructions of Susanna (based on Casina) and Asinaria(1625), Burmeister's two lost or unpublished inversions of Plautus. Fontaine also provides the only biography of Burmeister based on archival sources, along with discussions of his inimitable Latinity and the perilous context of war and witch-burning in which Burmeister wrote. Burmeister's inversions bear witness to the special talent of his age for the creative reworking of Classical literature, such as Monteverdi's Poppea or Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, as well as to his tumultuous times, with his views on military abuses in the Thirty Years' War prefiguring those of Grimmelshausen's Simplicius Simplicissimus.