Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material

Title Masterpieces of German humor.

Imprint Girard, Kan. : Haldeman-Julius Co., c1926.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Haldeman-Julius Collection Blue Books  LBB 1036 Ma    ---  Lib Use Only
 Axe Haldeman-Julius Collection Blue Books  LBB 1036 Ma c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Description 64 p. ; 13 cm.
Series Little blue book; no. 1036
Note Advertised 5 June 1926, Haldeman-Julius Weekly, p. 4.
Contents The song of songs. An asinine election. Equality of man and beast. Moses Lump's religion. The town of Gottingen. The disrespectful guillotine / Heinrich Heine -- Eulenspiegel's pranks -- Connubial bliss / Ludwig Fulda -- The modern guinea-pig / George Sylvester Viereck -- Hans at school / William [sic] Raabe -- Gunpowder as tobacco / Wilhelm Busch -- In society / Julius Stinde -- Art criticism / Edward [sic] Potzl -- The ape and the fox. Zeus and the horse. The raven / Ephraim Lessing -- The hen and the egg / Matthias Claudius -- Epigrams. The decorated bow / Ephraim Lessing -- Pegasus in the yoke / Friedrich von Schiller -- Satanic advice to a student / Wolfgang von Goethe -- The peacocks and the crow / Ephraim Lessing -- The drunkard's fancy / Wilhelm Muller.
Subject German wit and humor -- Translations into English.
Added Author Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856.
Fulda, Ludwig, 1862-1939.
Viereck, George Sylvester, 1884-1962.
Busch, Wilhelm, 1832-1908.
Stinde, Julius, 1841-1905.
Potzl, Eduard, 1851-1914.
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781.
Claudius, Matthias, 1740-1815.
Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Müller, Wilhelm, 1794-1827.
Raabe, Wilhelm Karl, 1831-1910.
Added Title Eulenspiegel (Satire)

 
    
Available items only