Simplicius Simplicissimus: Annotated Edition with an introduction by Helmut Weissenborn Spiral-Bound | May 23, 2023

Simplicius Simplicissimus—the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest novelists in the German language—charts the adventures of its hero, Simplicius, through the horrors of battle, murder, fire and famine, offering an invaluable eyewitness account of the Thirty Years’ War and showing how humanity can, in the end, triumph over brutality.