It is a violent and often all-too-realistic picaresque, set in war-torn Europe during the 17th-century Thirty Years War.

The adventures of Tearaway and mother Courage in the Thirty Years War. 'The author', the aging Simplicissimus and his former comrade Tearway (a character from Simplicissimus) happen to meet in a village...

A companion volume to Simplicissimus: the story of younggirl 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...