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Set against the background of the Thirty Years' War, this 17th-century novel uses an artless and earthy language new to German literature at the time. It charts the saga of Simplicius as he undergoes wars, marriages, and travels that culminate on an uncharted South Atlantic island.

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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 no

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