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'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butcher's shirt!"' Written for a local German journal and published in 1811, these fabulous, funny, jewel-like miniature tales describe con men, tricksters...
These stories were originally published in a popular almanack edited for a wide readership. They cover a broad spectrum of human experience, their dramatis personae ranging from Napoleon to common soldiers, working men and women, servants, and petty ...