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 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781627938983 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1627938982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Adventurous Simplicissimus by : Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
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 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0826414826 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780826414823 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Adventures of a Simpleton by : Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
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 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141982120 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0141982128 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus by : Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
'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 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781907650024 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1907650024 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of Courage by : Mike Mitchell
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 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681371238 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681371235 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Thirty Years War by : C. V. Wedgwood
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 |
: Terry Thompson |
Publisher |
: Stenhouse Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781571107121 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1571107126 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Adventures in Graphica by : Terry Thompson
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 |
: Jim Booth |
Publisher |
: Watchmaker Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0972178600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780972178600 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Southern Gentleman by : Jim Booth
"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 |
: Bernard Cornwell |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2001-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101153628 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101153628 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Waterloo (#11) by : Bernard Cornwell
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 |
: Voltaire Voltaire |
Publisher |
: Xist Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 2016-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681959528 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681959526 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Candide by : Voltaire Voltaire
Candide by Voltaire from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?' Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?” ― Voltaire, Candide Candide is a young man who is raised in wealth to be an optimist but when he is forced to make his own way in the world, his assumptions and outlook are challenged.
Author |
: Henry Venmore-Rowland |
Publisher |
: Canelo |
Total Pages |
: 383 |
Release |
: 2018-10-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781788632508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1788632508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Caesar by : Henry Venmore-Rowland
As Emperor Nero casts his madness over Rome, a loyal soldier is caught in a conspiracy that threatens the empire in this historical epic. Rome, 68 AD: The tyrant emperor Nero has no heir, and whispers of rebellion are spreading fast. As Rome faces the possibility of becoming a republic once more, the ambitions of a few are about to bring untold corruption, chaos, and bloodshed. Aulus Caecina Severus, hero of the campaign against Boudica, has become part of a conspiracy to overthrow Caesar’s dynasty. But is it really all for the good of Rome? The boundary between service and self-preservation is far from clear, and navigating this dangerous path requires all Severus’ skills: as a cunning soldier and, increasingly, a deft politician. As the Year of the Four Emperors unfolds, the mighty Roman empire will be plunged into anarchy and civil war . . .