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Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah

By: Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

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Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah

By: Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

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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1400876362

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9781400876365

The Adventurous Simplicissimus

By: Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

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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.

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Simon and Schuster

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1627938982

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9781627938983

The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong

By: Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

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The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong

By: Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

When Grimmelshausen's The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong (Der seltzame Springinsfeld) first appeared in 1670 or 1671, it was as nearly guaranteed of commercial success as any work of fiction can be. Its titular hero and primary narrator was already familiar to the German-reading public as a minor character in the most popular novel of the age, Simplicissimus, and a major character in its sequel, The Runagate Courage. The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong is the third of the five novels by Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen which make up the so-called Simplician cycle. The first novel, Simplicissimus, has long been available in English translation; the second appeared fifteen years ago. This publication makes a complete and annotated English version of the third novel available to English readers for the first time. Like it predecessors, Heedless Hopalong is full of earthy humor and penetrating observations about man's foibles and the human dilemma. In it Grimmelshausen vividly portrays the most important Simplician characters, Courage and Hopalong, as they are in their old age. In the remaining two-thirds of the novel Hopalong tells the story of his life, describing his experience as a juggler boy, as a member of various armies during the Thirty Years' War, as an innkeeper, a beggar, etc., in language refreshingly direct, forthright, and lively. In his characterization of Hopalong, Grimmelshausen created one of German literature's finest portraits of the common soldier. The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong is the recipient of the First Basilius Award in Germanics.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814316883

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The Glory of the Lord

A Theological Aesthetics

By: Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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The Glory of the Lord

A Theological Aesthetics

By: Hans Urs Von Balthasar

In this second volume on the metaphysical traditions of the West, von Balthasar presents a series of studies of representative mystics, theologians, philosophers and poets and explores the three main streams of metaphysics which have developed since the 'catastrophe' of Nominalism. The way of self-abandonment to the divine glory is traced through figures like Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, Ignatius, de Sales; the attempt to relocate theology in a recovery of antiquity's sense of being and beauty through figures like Nicholas of Cusa, Holderlin, Goethe, Heidegger; the metaphysics of spirit through Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Idealists. The strengths and weaknesses of these ways are relentlessly exposed. The volume ends with the search for the Christian contribution to metaphysics.

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684

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Ignatius Press

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1681492032

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The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus

By: Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

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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

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Penguin UK

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0141982128

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9780141982120

The Truth in Hell and Other Essays on Politics and Culture, 1935-1987

By: Hans Speier

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The Truth in Hell and Other Essays on Politics and Culture, 1935-1987

By: Hans Speier

Long known as a pioneer in the sociological study of communications and of the middle class, and as a prominent member of the New School's "University in Exile," Hans Speier here presents a humanist view of the darker side of contemporary civilization and offers insights into the nature of social order and the role of uncommon people in it: the Hero, the Fool, and the political philosopher. After an autobiographical discussion of the evolution of his works, this collection of seminal essays that span his whole career surveys five areas of thought: social theory, war and militarism, public opinion and propaganda, the history of literature, and "the present and the future." Reflecting the range of his intellectual concerns and his experience as a refugee from Nazi Germany, his writings examine honor and social structure, hero worship, militarism in the eighteenth century, psychological warfare, and Shakespeare's The Tempest, among other topics.

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Oxford University Press

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0195363213

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Adventures of a Simpleton

By: Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

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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.

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A&C Black

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0826414826

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9780826414823

The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong

By: Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

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Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah

By: Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

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Book's by Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah

Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah

The Adventurous Simplicissimus

The Adventurous Simplicissimus

The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong

The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong

The Glory of the Lord

The Glory of the Lord

The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus

The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus

The Truth in Hell and Other Essays on Politics and Culture, 1935-1987

The Truth in Hell and Other Essays on Politics and Culture, 1935-1987

Adventures of a Simpleton

Adventures of a Simpleton

The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong

The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong

Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah

Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah

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