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Max and Maurice

Wilhelm Busch

Book Overview: 

This highly inventive, blackly humorous tale, told entirely in rhymed couplets, was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch. It is among the early works of Busch, nevertheless it already features many substantial, effectually aesthetic and formal regularities, procedures and basic patterns of Busch's later works.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .="width: 410px;"> Heart-sick (you may well suppose),
For the carving-knife she goes;
Cuts the bodies from the bough,
Hanging cold and lifeless now
And in silence, bathed in tears,
Through her house-door disappears.
This was the bad boys' first trick,
But the second follows quick.

[12]

TRICK SECOND. When the worthy Widow Tibbets
(Whom the cut below exhibits)
Had recovered, on the morrow,
From the dreadful shock of sorrow,
She (as soon as grief would let her
Think) began to think 'twere better
Just to take the dead, the dear ones
(Who in life were walking here once),
And in a still noonday hour
Them, well roasted, to devour.
True, it did seem almost wicked,
When they lay so bare and naked,
Picked, and singed before the blaze,—
They that once in happier days,
In the yard or garden . . . Read More

Community Reviews

In this charming and wittily written German children's classic, we meet Max and Moritz, a pair of appalling boys who, it soon becomes clear, the world would be much better off without. The pair indeed get their just desserts in the last chapter, when they are efficiently ground up by the miller and

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