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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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9780814316887

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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496

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Penguin UK

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ISBN 10

0141982128

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9780141982120

Encyclopedia of Protestantism

4-volume Set

By: Hans J. Hillerbrand

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Encyclopedia of Protestantism

4-volume Set

By: Hans J. Hillerbrand

This Encyclopedia is the definitive reference to the history and beliefs that continue to exert a profound influence on Western thought.

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4119

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Routledge

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ISBN 10

1135960283

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9781135960285

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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256

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A&C Black

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ISBN 10

0826414826

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9780826414823

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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527

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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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Wayne State University Press

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The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong

The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong

The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus

The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus

Encyclopedia of Protestantism

Encyclopedia of Protestantism

Adventures of a Simpleton

Adventures of a Simpleton

The Adventurous Simplicissimus

The Adventurous Simplicissimus

The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong

The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong

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