The Life of Courage: The Nortorious Thief, Whore and Vagabond

by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Book Overview

Courage is one of most indomitable women in European literature and a feminist icon for our times.
The Life of Courage (first published in 1670), one episode from whose life Brecht used as the basis for his Mother Courage, is the female counterpart to Simplicissimus. A young girl caught up in the turmoil of the Thirty Years War, she survives, even prospers, by the use of her native cunning and sexual attraction. Completely amoral, she flits from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910213241
• ISBN13: 9781910213247
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Dedalus
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.8"