The ageing Simplicissimus and his former comrade Tearaway happen to meet in a village inn. Tearaway then recounts his adventurous life, which takes him through the horrors of the Thirty Years' War and then to Hungary to fight against the Turks, before ending up as a one-legged travelling fiddler.
| ISBN: | 9781903517185 |
| Publication date: | 24th March 2003 |
| Author: | Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Mike Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Dedalus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 167 pages |
| Series: | Dedalus European Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary |