Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks by Wilhelm Busch

"Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks" by Wilhelm Busch is an illustrated story in verse published in 1865. This blackly humorous German tale follows two mischievous boys through seven escalating pranks that torment their neighbors—from trapping chickens and tormenting a tailor to filling pipes with gunpowder and stealing sweets. Told entirely in rhymed couplets, this inventive work has profoundly influenced comic strip history and remains deeply embedded in German-speaking culture, where the leering duo symbolizes childhood mischief itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Busch, Wilhelm, 1832-1908
Translator Brooks, Charles Timothy, 1813-1883
Title Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_and_Moritz
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 76.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Wit and humor
Subject Children's poetry
Subject Practical jokes -- Juvenile poetry
Category Text
EBook-No. 28847
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Jan 5, 2021
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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