Of Guardian Angels and Devils
Of Guardian Angels and Devils / Von Schutzengeln und Teufeln
Heavenly mishaps and little devilries
Hans Traxler’s The Book of Guardian Angels and The Book of Devils in one volume
Before there were devils, Earth was pure paradise. Which was nice, but also rather boring. That’s when God knew that he had to intervene. Since then, devils great and small have ensured that the inhabitants of Earth were never bored again. However, now they too many of them met an all-too-early end due to the superiority of evil. Once again, the Almighty was forced to step in. After a few failed attempts, he produced an acceptable model – and that is how the guardian angels came...
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Before there were devils, Earth was pure paradise. Which was nice, but also rather boring. That’s when God knew that he had to intervene. Since then, devils great and small have ensured that the inhabitants of Earth were never bored again. However, now they too many of them met an all-too-early end due to the superiority of evil. Once again, the Almighty was forced to step in. After a few failed attempts, he produced an acceptable model – and that is how the guardian angels came into the world. Today we can no longer imagine life without them. But neither can we imagine life without the devils.
Hans Traxler has taken an in-depth look at both species, compiled interesting and endearing facts with devilish pleasure and documented them with a light hand in pictures and text.
2023, 126 pages
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Hans Traxler
Author
Hans Traxler, born in Herrlich, a village in northern Bohemia, in 1929, is a painter, illustrator and author. He was awarded numerous prizes for his œuvre, among them the Wilhelm Busch Prize in 2015 and most recently the Sondermann Prize 2017.
Hans Traxler
Author
Hans Traxler, born in Herrlich, a village in northern Bohemia, in 1929, is a painter, illustrator and author. He was awarded numerous prizes for...
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Year of Publication: 2021
Hans TraxlerYear of Publication: 2021
Ignaz, the Fawn Great Dane and the Hellhounds
Hans Traxler writes about dogs who had a lasting impact on his life.
There is Ignaz, his grandfather’s much-loved mixed-breed dog whose hunting instinct was his undoing; the emaciated fawn Great Dane who appeared out of nowhere shortly after the war and almost caused young Hans to have a near-death experience and then there are the hellhounds, who moved in next to his house in the...
Year of Publication: 2019
Hans TraxlerYear of Publication: 2019
Mom, How Come I’m Not a Chicken?
Hans Traxler, who grew up in a Bohemian village in the 1930s, had a childhood just like in the olden days, with a mother who played the church organ, a father who was the commander of the local Gendarmerie and who at Ascension Day could be found behind the baldachin with the monstrance and his older brothers who showed him how to catch trout with the butterfly net. But this idyllic time came...
Year of Publication: 2018
Hans TraxlerYear of Publication: 2018
Sniffler
A summer month in a stately country residence in East Sussex. Sounds marvelous. When a married couple is invited by their English friends to look after the house and the dog while they go on holiday, they are overjoyed at the prospect. Swimming in Pevensey Bay, excursions with the Bluebell Express, visits to the Tate Gallery, hiking in the Downs – the two make great plans. But they have not...
Year of Publication: 1979
Hans TraxlerYear of Publication: 1979
There Once Was a Man
It all starts with the old nursery rhyme: »There once was a man who had a sponge ...«. But then the rhyme and the plot take on a life of their own, and the man with the child's...
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