TY - BOOK AU - Busch,Wilhelm AU - Brooks,Charles Timothy TI - Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks AV - PTPZ PY - 2009/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Wit and humor KW - Children's poetry KW - Practical jokes -- Juvenile poetry N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_and_Moritz; Release date is 2009-05-16; Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks" by Wilhelm Busch is an illustrated story in verse published in 1865. This blackly humorous German tale follows two mischievous boys through seven escalating pranks that torment their neighbors—from trapping chickens and tormenting a tailor to filling pipes with gunpowder and stealing sweets. Told entirely in rhymed couplets, this inventive work has profoundly influenced comic strip history and remains deeply embedded in German-speaking culture, where the leering duo symbolizes childhood mischief itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28847 ER -