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Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah (Hardcover)
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Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Grimmelshausen's enduring fame as Germany's greatest satirical
novelist has rested mainly on The Adventerous Simplicissimus, the
first of four novels comprising the Simplician cycle. Less well
known, though of equal interest for their penetrating and satiric
insight into seventeenth-century beliefs and superstitions, are the
two Simplician tales now made available to English readers in this
edition: Courage, The Adventuress, the fictional biography of a
camp follower in the Thirty Years War, a grimly humorous tale told
in the earthy language of the people; and The False Messiah,
comprising nine chapters from Grimmelshausen's last work, The
Enchanted Bird's Nest, Part II. The book includes an Introduction
with an account of Grimmelshausen's life, works, and philosophy, as
well as critical comment on the two works. Originally published in
1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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