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Tartuffe Molière, translated by Curtis Hidden Page
You'll spend most of it wanting to shake Orgon, who's so besotted with his pious houseguest that he ignores everyone, including his sharp-tongued maid Dorine, who steals every scene she's in. It's fast, mean, very funny, and reads in an evening.
The Adventurous Simplicissimus Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, translated by Alfred Thomas Scrope Goodrick
You get a wildly episodic, darkly funny ride through the Thirty Years’ War, as the naïve Simplicius survives soldiers, hermits, tricksters, and sudden changes of fortune. It’s shaggy and sometimes preachy, but its mud, hunger, bawdy absurdity, and sharp eye for human folly still feel startlingly alive.

2 books

sort era

Tartuffe Molière, translated by Curtis Hidden Page
You'll spend most of it wanting to shake Orgon, who's so besotted with his pious houseguest that he ignores everyone, including his sharp-tongued maid Dorine, who steals every scene she's in. It's fast, mean, very funny, and reads in an evening.
The Adventurous Simplicissimus Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, translated by Alfred Thomas Scrope Goodrick
You get a wildly episodic, darkly funny ride through the Thirty Years’ War, as the naïve Simplicius survives soldiers, hermits, tricksters, and sudden changes of fortune. It’s shaggy and sometimes preachy, but its mud, hunger, bawdy absurdity, and sharp eye for human folly still feel startlingly alive.