Mike Mitchell

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Johann Grimmelshausen

This gaudy, wild, and raw tale of a war-torn 17th Century Europe depicts Simplicissimus as the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor. We follow him from the deprivations of an orphaned childhood to the casual atrocities of occupying troops, through his own soldiering adventures, and to his final vocation as a hermit alone on an island. Mike Mitchell's superb translation allows readers to enjoy more fully one of the great masterpieces of European literature and the first German bestseller.

Johann Grimmelshausen

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