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how humanity can, in the end, triumph over brutality.A work of great poetic beauty and satirical strength, and a historical document of timeless value, Simplicius Simplicissimus i...

Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King of the Temple of the Grail, which Wolfram describes as a life-giving Stone. As a knight serving the German nobility in the imperial Hohenstauffen period, the author was uniquely placed to descri...

Six years after the events of With Fire and Sword, the Polish Commonwealth has recovered from the earlier bloody wars against the Cossacks and the Crimean Khanate, but new threats emerge. A Swedish invasion spreads through the country with terrifying speed, and nearly all of Poland's nobility capitulates-except for a small group of loyalists who remain true to their king and country.The Deluge is the second book in Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trilogy, following With Fire and Sword and preceding P...

'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 MannA 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 Euro...

"Taras Bulba" by Nikolai Gogol is a historical novella set in 16th-century Ukraine. It follows the exploits of the Cossack warrior Taras Bulba and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. The narrative unfolds against the backdrop of a fierce conflict between the Cossacks and Poland. Taras Bulba's loyalty to his homeland and his desire for vengeance drive the story, leading to tragic consequences for his family. Gogol's work explores themes of patriotism, loyalty, and the clash of cultures, offerin...

The present translation of Pan Tadeusz is based on the editions of Biegeleisen (Lemberg, 1893) and Kallenbach (Brody, 1911). I have had constantly by me the German translation by Lipiner (ed. 2, Leipzig, 1898) and the French translation by Ostrowski (ed. 4, Paris, 1859), and am deeply indebted to them. The English translation by Miss Maude Ashurst Biggs (Master Thaddeus; or, The Last Foray in Lithuania: London, 1885) I did not have at hand until my own version was nearly complete; after th...

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition ...

Mike Mitchell�s translation of Simplicissimus was shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. �It is a violent and often all-too-realistic picaresque, set in war-torn Europe during the 17th-century Thirty Years War. Simplicissimus is the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor, and we follow him from a childhood in which he loses his parents to the casual atrocities of occupying troops, through his own soldiering adventures, and up to his final vocation as a hermit al...

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Henryk Sienkiewicz was a prominent Polish author best known for historical novels such as Quo Vadis and With Fire and Sword. This collection includes the following:NOVELS:Quo VadisWith Fire and SwordThe DelugePan Mic...

A companion volume to Simplicissimus: the story of young girl named Courage, caught up in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War, who survives, even prospers, by the use of her native cunning and sexual attraction. Completely amoral, she flits through a succession of husbands and lovers and ends her life with a band of Gypsies. The conceit here is that Courage supposedly tells her story to get back at Simplicissimus, who treats her dismissively in his own memoirs. This is a remorseless ...

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Ukrainian paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

Robert Browning's dramatic poems come alive here as psychological miniatures: voices under pressure, motives half-hidden, and moral truths revealed through speech, gesture, and sudden reversal. From Renaissance courts and medieval honor to religious devotion, failed love, ambition, and the dangerous reach of desire, these poems probe the inner costs of pride, jealousy, conscience, and power. "Incident of the French Camp," "The Patriot," "My Last Duchess," and "Count Gismond" dramatize cour...