Summer Tales

This is the first English translation of a work by Johann Beer. Beer (1655-1700) is well known as the -successor- of Grimmelshausen in the genre of the picaresque novel. Beer's Die kurtzweiligen Sommertage is rightly considered one of the most important (and readable ) novels of the seventeenth century. The novel documents in a humorous way the adventuresome life of the Austrian nobility in the 17th century and provides a rare glimpse into the everday life and spirit of this little-known period.

With introduction and notes to the text."