An edition of Struwwelpeter (1865)

Slovenly Peter

or cheerful stories and funny pictures for good little folks

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Slovenly Peter
Heinrich Hoffmann
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An edition of Struwwelpeter (1865)

Slovenly Peter

or cheerful stories and funny pictures for good little folks

  • 4.56 ·
  • 18 Ratings
  • 74 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 20 Have read

Tales in verse about some naughty children and the fates that befall them when they misbehave

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
90

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Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Struwwelpeter
Struwwelpeter: in English translation
1995, Dover Publications
in English
Cover of: Slovenly Peter
Slovenly Peter
1918, Houghton Mifflin Company
Cover of: The English Struwwelpeter, or, Pretty stories and funny pictures
Cover of: Slovenly Peter

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Edition Notes

"From the 23d edition of the celebrated German work of Dr. Henry Hoffman."

This ed. has three additional stories at the end

Translation of Der Struwwelpeter

Title page followed by added illustrated title page, which includes the 23rd edition statement and does not have the end phrase 'for good little folks'

Bound in blue pictorial cloth stamped in black with gilt title

Published in
Philadelphia
Other Titles
Cheerful stories and funny pictures for good little folks, Cheerful stories and funny pictures

The Physical Object

Pagination
[2], [90] p. :
Number of pages
90

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15049136M

Work Description

Struwwelpeter is a collection of children's poetry meant to serve as instructions for life's lessons. Most of the stories tell the tale of a child's misbehavior and the grizzly end they will meet if they do not change their ways.

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