The Adventures Of Simplicius Simplicissimus
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Author | : Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1627938982 |
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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 by foraging dragoons and is eventually adopted by a forest hermit. He is conscripted at a young age into service, and from there embarks on years of foraging, military triumph, wealth, prostitution, disease, travels to Russia, and countless other adventures.
Author | : Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780826414823 |
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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.
Author | : Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2018-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141982128 |
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'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
Author | : Mike Mitchell |
Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2010-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1907650024 |
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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.
Author | : C. V. Wedgwood |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2016-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1681371235 |
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Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.
Author | : Jim Booth |
Publisher | : Watchmaker Publishing |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780972178600 |
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"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
Author | : Terry Thompson |
Publisher | : Stenhouse Publishers |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1571107126 |
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Comic books and graphic novels, known collectively as "graphica," have long been popular with teenagers and adults. Recently graphica has grown in popularity with younger readers as well, motivating and engaging some of our most reluctant readers who often shun traditional texts. While some teachers have become curious about graphica's potential, many are confused by the overwhelming number of new titles and series, in both fiction and nonfiction, and are unsure of its suitability and function in their classrooms. Drawing on his own success using graphica with elementary students, literacy coach Terry Thompson introduces reading teachers to this popular medium and suggests sources of appropriate graphica for the classroom and for particular students. Taking cues from research that supports the use of graphica with students, Terry shows how this exciting medium fits into the literacy framework and correlates with best practices in comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency instruction. Adventures in Graphica contains numerous, easy-to-replicate, instructional strategies, including examples of how graphic texts can be used to create a bridge as students transfer abstract comprehension strategies learned through comics and graphic novels to traditional texts. Adventures in Graphica provides a roadmap for teachers to the medium that the New York Times recently hailed as possibly "the next new literary form."
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 1810 |
Release | : 2002-10-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141000589 |
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This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks at textual and literary-historical issues. The texts themselves have been scrupulously edited and are accompanied by same-page notes and glossaries. Particular attention has been paid to the design of the book to ensure that this first new edition of the twenty-first century is both attractive and approachable.
Author | : Bernard Cornwell |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2001-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101153628 |
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June 1815: The Duke of Wellington, the Prince of Orange, and Napoleon will meet on the battlefield--and decide the fate of Europe With the emperor Napoleon at its head, an enormous French army is marching toward Brussels. The British and their allies are also converging on Brussels--in preparation for a grand society ball. It is up to Richard Sharpe to convince the Prince of Orange, the inexperienced commander of Wellington's Dutch troops, to act before it is too late. But Sharpe's warning cannot stop the tide of battle, and the British suffer heavy losses on the road to Waterloo. Wellington has few reserves of men and ammunition; the Prussian army has not arrived; and the French advance wields tremendous firepower and determination. Victory seems impossible.
Author | : Hans Holbein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Dance of Death |
ISBN | : |
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