The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen with John P. Spielman (Translator), Fritz Eichenberg (Illustrator)

319 pages • first pub 1669 (view editions) user-added

fiction classics adventurous challenging funny slow-paced
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The first great German novel - an extraordinary recreation of the horrors of the Thirty Years War, written by a veteran of the conflictFirst published in 1668, Simplicissimus tells the picaresque, brilliantly described adventures of a boy swept up...

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