Simplicissimus

Author: Johann Grimmelshausen
Edition: 2 Tra
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B004NSV94Q

Simplicissimus

Mike Mitchell's translation of Simplicissimus was shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Get Simplicissimus literature books for free.
"It is a violent and often all-too-realistic picaresque, set in war-torn Europe during the 17th-century Thirty Years War. Simplicissimus is the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor, and we follow him from a childhood in which he loses his parents to the casual atrocities of occupying troops, through his own soldiering adventures, and up to his final vocation as a hermit alone on an island. It is Rabelasian in some respects, but more down to earth and melancholy." Phil Baker in The Sunday Times "It is the rarest kind of monument to life and literature, for it has survived almost three centuries and will Check Simplicissimus our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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