Max and Moritz

By Wilhelm Busch, Stefan Hollos (translator), J. Richard Hollos (translator)

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Based on the classic German children's story Max und Moritz by Wilhelm Busch, this dual language German-English version includes the original German verse and color illustrations with a new English translation. Contains a biographical timeline of Wilhelm Busch's life. Includes Wilhelm Busch's "Diogenes and the Bad Boys of Corinth".

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1 author picked Max and Moritz as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

We can’t resist adding a historical first, published in German in 1865 by Wilhelm Busch, the father of countless other comics that present the pranks of naughty boys. And it features in Two Heads because it inspired psychologists, including ourselves, to study the remarkable ability to mindread. In a single panel Busch reveals that the reader can infer that what is in the mind of the terrible duo is different from what’s in the mind of Widow Bolte, and different from what’s in the mind of her dog. It allows us readers to get the contradictions between these different views…

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