Simplicius Simplicissims by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

607 pages first pub 1669 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous challenging funny slow-paced
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The first great German novel - an extraordinary recreation of the horrors of the Thirty Years War, written by a veteran of the conflictFirst published in 1668, Simplicissimus tells the picaresque, brilliantly described adventures of a boy swept up...

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