The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of…
"The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere" by Charles De Coster is a French-language novel published in 1867. This sweeping tale transforms the medieval German trickster Till Eulenspiegel into a Flemish folk hero fighting Spanish oppression during the Dutch Revolt. After witnessing his father burned at the stake for heresy, the prankster Tyl evolves from idle jokester into a cunning spy and rebel
agent, carrying his father's ashes while serving William the Silent's resistance movement. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Coster, Charles de, 1827-1879 |
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| Illustrator | Delstanche, Albert, 1870-1941 |
| Translator | Whitworth, Geoffrey Arundel, 1883-1951 |
| Uniform Title | Légende d'Ulenspiegel. English |
| Title | The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Thyl_Ulenspiegel_and_Lamme_Goedzak |
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| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 86.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Adventure stories |
| Subject | Eulenspiegel (Satire) -- Legends |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 37599 |
| Release Date | Oct 2, 2011 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 8, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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