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Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Dedication
  4. Introduction
  5. Frontispiece
  6. The Adventurous Simplicissimus
    1. Book I
      1. I: Treats of Simplicissimus’s Rustic Descent and of His Upbringing Answering Thereto
      2. II: Of the First Step Towards That Dignity to Which Simplicissimus Attained, to Which Is Added the Praise of Shepherds and Other Excellent Precepts
      3. III: Treats of the Sufferings of a Faithful Bagpipe
      4. IV: How Simplicissimus’s Palace Was Stormed, Plundered, and Ruinated, and in What Sorry Fashion the Soldiers Kept House There
      5. V: How Simplicissimus Took French Leave, and How He Was Terrified by Dead Trees
      6. VI: Is So Short and So Prayerful That Simplicissimus Thereupon Swoons Away
      7. VII: How Simplicissimus Was in a Poor Lodging Kindly Entreated
      8. VIII: How Simplicissimus by His Noble Discourse Proclaimed His Excellent Qualities
      9. IX: How Simplicissimus Was Changed from a Wild Beast Into a Christian
      10. X: In What Manner He Learned to Read and Write in the Wild Woods
      11. XI: Discourseth of Foods, Household Stuff, and Other Necessary Concerns, Which Folk Must Have in This Earthly Life
      12. XII: Tells of a Notable Fine Way, to Die Happy and to Have Oneself Buried at Small Cost
      13. XIII: How Simplicissimus Was Driven About Like a Straw in a Whirlpool
      14. XIV: A Quaint Comedia of Five Peasants
      15. XV: How Simplicissimus Was Plundered, and How He Dreamed of the Peasants and How They Fared in Times of War
      16. XVI: Of the Ways and Works of Soldiers Nowadays, and How Hardly a Common Soldier Can Get Promotion
      17. XVII: How It Happens That, Whereas in War the Nobles Are Ever Put Before the Common Men, Yet Many Do Attain from Despised Rank to High Honours
      18. XVIII: How Simplicissimus Took His First Step Into the World and That with Evil Luck
      19. XIX: How Simplicissimus Was Captured by Hanau and Hanau by Simplicissimus
      20. XX: In What Wise He Was Saved from Prison and Torture
      21. XXI: How Treacherous Dame Fortune Cast on Simplicissimus a Friendly Glance
      22. XXII: Who the Hermit Was by Whom Simplicissimus Was Cherished
      23. XXIII: How Simplicissimus Became a Page: And Likewise, How the Hermit’s Wife Was Lost
      24. XXIV: How Simplicissimus Blamed the World and Saw Many Idols Therein
      25. XXV: How Simplicissimus Found the World All Strange and the World Found Him Strange Likewise
      26. XXVI: A New and Strange Way for Men to Wish One Another Luck and to Welcome One Another
      27. XXVII: How Simplicissimus Discoursed with the Secretary, and How He Found a False Friend
      28. XXVIII: How Simplicissimus Got Two Eyes Out of One Calf’s-Head
      29. XXIX: How a Man Step by Step May Attain Unto Intoxication and Finally Unawares Become Blind Drunk
      30. XXX: Still Treats of Naught but of Drinking Bouts, and How to Be Rid of Parsons Thereat
      31. XXXI: How the Lord Governor Shot a Very Foul Fox
      32. XXXII: How Simplicissimus Spoiled the Dance
    2. Book II
      1. I: How a Goose and a Gander Were Mated
      2. II: Concerning the Merits and Virtues of a Good Bath at the Proper Season
      3. III: How the Other Page Received Payment for His Teaching, and How Simplicissimus Was Chosen to Be a Fool
      4. IV: Concerning the Man That Pays the Money, and of the Military Service That Simplicissimus Did for the Crown of Sweden: Through Which Service He Got the Name of Simplicissimus
      5. V: How Simplicissimus Was by Four Devils Brought Into Hell and There Treated with Spanish Wine
      6. VI: How Simplicissimus Went Up to Heaven and Was Turned Into a Calf
      7. VII: How Simplicissimus Accommodated Himself to the State of a Brute Beast
      8. VIII: Discourseth of the Wondrous Memory of Some and the Forgetfulness of Others
      9. IX: Crooked Praise of a Proper Lady
      10. X: Discourseth of Naught but Heroes and Famous Artists
      11. XI: Of the Toilsome and Dangerous Office of a Governor
      12. XII: Of the Sense and Knowledge of Certain Unreasoning Animals
      13. XIII: Of Various Matters Which Whoever Will Know Must Either Read Them or Have Them Read to Him
      14. XIV: How Simplicissimus Led the Life of a Nobleman, and How the Croats Robbed Him of This When They Stole Himself
      15. XV: Of Simplicissimus’ Life with the Troopers, and What He Saw and Learned Among the Croats
      16. XVI: How Simplicissimus Found Goodly Spoils, and How He Became a Thievish Brother of the Woods
      17. XVII: How Simplicissimus Was Present at a Dance of Witches
      18. XVIII: Doth Prove That No Man Can Lay to Simplicissimus’ Charge That He Doth Draw the Long Bow
      19. XIX: How Simplicissimus Became a Fool Again as He Had Been a Fool Before
      20. XX: Is Pretty Long, and Treats of Playing with Dice and What Hangs Thereby
      21. XXI: Is Somewhat Shorter and More Entertaining Than the Last
      22. XXII: A Rascally Trick to Step Into Another Man’s Shoes
      23. XXIII: How Ulrich Herzbruder Sold Himself for a Hundred Ducats
      24. XXIV: How Two Prophecies Were Fulfilled at Once
      25. XXV: How Simplicissimus Was Transformed from a Boy Into a Girl and Fell Into Divers Adventures of Love
      26. XXVI: How He Was Imprisoned for a Traitor and Enchanter
      27. XXVII: How the Provost Fared in the Battle of Wittstock
      28. XXVIII: Of a Great Battle Wherein the Conqueror Is Captured in the Hour of Triumph
      29. XXIX: How a Notably Pious Soldier Fared in Paradise, and How the Huntsman Filled His Place
      30. XXX: How the Huntsman Carried Himself When He Began to Learn the Trade of War: Wherefrom a Young Soldier May Learn Somewhat
      31. XXXI: How the Devil Stole the Parson’s Bacon and How the Huntsman Caught Himself
    3. Book III
      1. I: How the Huntsman Went Too Far to the Left Hand
      2. II: How the Huntsman of Soest Did Rid Himself of the Huntsman of Wesel
      3. III: How the Great God Jupiter Was Captured and How He Revealed the Counsels of the Gods
      4. IV: Of the German Hero That Shall Conquer the Whole World and Bring Peace to All Nations
      5. V: How He Shall Reconcile All Religions and Cast Them in the Same Mould
      6. VI: How the Embassy of the Fleas Fared with Jupiter
      7. VII: How the Huntsman Again Secured Honour and Booty
      8. VIII: How He Found the Devil in the Trough, and How Jump-I’-Th’-Field Got Fine Horses
      9. IX: Of an Unequal Combat in Which the Weakest Wins the Day and the Conqueror Is Captured
      10. X: How the Master-General of Ordnance Granted the Huntsman His Life and Held Out Hopes to Him of Great Things
      11. XI: Contains All Manner of Matters of Little Import and Great Imagination
      12. XII: How Fortune Unexpectedly Bestowed on the Huntsman a Noble Present
      13. XIII: Of Simplicissimus’ Strange Fancies and Castles in the Air, and How He Guarded His Treasure
      14. XIV: How the Huntsman Was Captured by the Enemy
      15. XV: On What Condition the Huntsman Was Set Free
      16. XVI: How Simplicissimus Became a Nobleman
      17. XVII: How the Huntsman Disposed Himself to Pass His Six Months: And Also Somewhat of the Prophetess
      18. XVIII: How the Huntsman Went a Wooing, and Made a Trade of It
      19. XIX: By What Means the Huntsman Made Friends, and How He Was Moved by a Sermon
      20. XX: How He Gave the Faithful Priest Other Fish to Fry, to Cause Him to Forget His Own Hoggish Life
      21. XXI: How Simplicissimus All Unawares Was Made a Married Man
      22. XXII: How Simplicissimus Held His Wedding-Feast and How He Purposed to Begin His New Life
      23. XXIII: How Simplicissimus Came to a Certain Town (Which He Nameth for Convenience Cologne) to Fetch His Treasure
      24. XXIV: How the Huntsman Caught a Hare in the Middle of a Town
    4. Book IV
      1. I: How and for What Reason the Huntsman Was Jockeyed Away Into France
      2. II: How Simplicissimus Found a Better Host Than Before
      3. III: How He Became a Stage Player and Got Himself a New Name
      4. IV: How Simplicissimus Departed Secretly and How He Believed He Had the Neapolitan Disease
      5. V: How Simplicissimus Pondered on His Past Life, and How with the Water Up to His Mouth He Learned to Swim
      6. VI: How He Became a Vagabond Quack and a Cheat
      7. VII: How the Doctor Was Fitted with a Musket Under Captain Curmudgeon
      8. VIII: How Simplicissimus Endured a Cheerless Bath in the Rhine
      9. IX: Wherefore Clergymen Should Never Eat Hares That Have Been Taken in a Snare
      10. X: How Simplicissimus Was All Unexpectedly Quit of His Musket
      11. XI: Discourses of the Order of the Marauder Brothers
      12. XII: Of a Desperate Fight for Life in Which Each Party Doth Yet Escape Death
      13. XIII: How Oliver Conceived That He Could Excuse His Brigand’s Tricks
      14. XIV: How Oliver Explained Herzbruder’s Prophecy to His Own Profit, and So Came to Love His Worst Enemy
      15. XV: How Simplicissimus Thought More Piously When He Went A-Plundering Than Did Oliver When He Went to Church
      16. XVI: Of Oliver’s Descent, and How He Behaved in His Youth, and Specially at School
      17. XVIII: How He Studied at Liège, and How He There Demeaned Himself
      18. XVIII: Of the Homecoming and Departure of This Worshipful Student, and How He Sought to Obtain Advancement in the Wars
      19. XIX: How Simplicissimus Fulfilled Herzbruder’s Prophecy to Oliver Before Yet Either Knew the Other
      20. XX: How It Doth Fare with a Man on Whom Evil Fortune Doth Rain Cats and Dogs
      21. XXI: A Brief Example of That Trade Which Oliver Followed, Wherein He Was a Master and Simplicissimus Should Be a Prentice
      22. XXII: How Oliver Bit the Dust and Took Six Good Men with Him
      23. XXIII: How Simplicissimus Became a Rich Man and Herzbruder Fell Into Great Misery
      24. XXIV: Of the Manner in Which Herzbruder Fell Into Such Evil Plight
    5. Book V
      1. I: How Simplicissimus Turned Palmer and Went on a Pilgrimage with Herzbruder
      2. II: How Simplicissimus, Being Terrified of the Devil, Was Converted
      3. III: How the Two Friends Spent the Winter
      4. IV: In What Manner Simplicissimus and Herzbruder Went to the Wars Again and Returned Thence
      5. V: How Simplicissimus Rode Courier and in the Likeness of Mercury Learned from Jove What His Design Was as Regards War and Peace
      6. VI: A Story of a Trick That Simplicissimus Played at the Spa
      7. VII: How Herzbruder Died and How Simplicissimus Again Fell to Wanton Courses
      8. VIII: How Simplicissimus Found His Second Marriage Turn Out, and How He Met with His Dad and Learned Who His Parents Had Been
      9. IX: In What Manner the Pains of Childbirth Came Upon Him, and How He Became a Widower
      10. X: Relation of Certain Peasants Concerning the Wonderful Mummelsee
      11. XI: Of the Marvellous Thanksgiving of a Patient, and of the Holy Thoughts Thereby Awakened in Simplicissimus
      12. XII: How Simplicissimus Journeyed with the Sylphs to the Centre of the Earth
      13. XIII to XVI
      14. XVII: How Simplicissimus Returned from the Middle of the Earth, and of His Strange Fancies, His Aircastles, His Calculations; and How He Reckoned Without His Host
      15. XVIII: How Simplicissimus Wasted His Spring in the Wrong Place
      16. XIX
      17. XX: Treats of a Trifling Promenade from the Black Forest to Moscow in Russia
      18. XXI: How Simplicissimus Further Fared in Moscow
      19. XXII: By What a Short and Merry Road He Came Home to His Dad
      20. XXIII: Is Very Short and Concerneth Simplicissimus Alone
      21. XXIV: Why and in What Fashion Simplicissimus Left the World Again
  7. Appendix A
    1. Continuation
      1. XIX: How Simplicissimus and a Carpenter Escaped from a Shipwreck with Their Lives and Were Thereafter Provided with a Land of Their Own
      2. XX: How They Hired a Fair Cookmaid and by God’s Help Were Rid of Her Again
      3. XXI: How They Thereafter Kept House Together and How They Set to Work
      4. XXII: Further Sequel of the Above Story, and How Simon Meron Left the Island and This Life, and How Simplicissimus Remained the Sole Lord of the Island
      5. XXIII: In Which the Hermit Concludes His Story and Therewith Ends These His Six Books
  8. Appendix B
  9. Appendix C
    1. Continuatio, XIII
  10. Endnotes
  11. List of Illustrations
  12. Colophon
  13. Uncopyright

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  1. The Adventurous Simplicissimus
  2. Endnotes
  3. List of Illustrations