This is the first full-length monograph on the Baroque novelist Johann Beer (1655-1700) since Richard Alewyn's discovery of the author in 1933, and is the first study presenting Beer's entire narrative production. Alewyn restricted his investigations to a small number of central texts, leaving a large number of minor works out of account. The present study takes a different course, analyzing Beer's entire narrative oeuvre as the changing expression of a fundamentally consistent narrative intention.