Hans Von Grimmelshausen: 5 books

The Adventurous Simplicissimus is a historical novel written in 1668 by the German author Hans von Grimmelshausen.  The book was inspired by the Thirty Years’ War from 1618 to 1648.  This edition includes a table of contents.

Königs Erläuterung zu Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus. - Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und Abituraufgaben. In einem Band bieten dir die neuen Königs Erläuterungen alles, was du zur Vorbereitung auf Referat, Klausur, Abitur...

Simplicius Simplicissimus (German: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch) is a picaresque novel of the lower Baroque style, written in 1668 by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen and probably published the same year (although bearing the date 1669). Inspired by the events and horrors of...

'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 First published in 1668, Simplicissimus tells the picaresque, brilliantly...

The novel follows a boy from the Spessart named Simplicius in the Holy Roman Empire during the 30 Years War as he grows up in the depraved environment and joins the armies of both warring sides, switching allegiances several times. Born to an illiterate peasant family, he is separated from his home...