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The Adventurous Simplicissimus

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, translated by Alfred Thomas Scrope Goodrick

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A young man comes of age during the Thirty Years’ War in Germany.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Dedication
  3. Introduction
  4. Frontispiece
  5. The Adventurous Simplicissimus
  6. I: Treats of Simplicissimus’s Rustic Descent and of His Upbringing Answering Thereto
  7. II: Of the First Step Towards That Dignity to Which Simplicissimus Attained, to Which Is Added the Praise of Shepherds and Other Excellent Precepts
  8. III: Treats of the Sufferings of a Faithful Bagpipe
  9. IV: How Simplicissimus’s Palace Was Stormed, Plundered, and Ruinated, and in What Sorry Fashion the Soldiers Kept House There
  10. V: How Simplicissimus Took French Leave, and How He Was Terrified by Dead Trees
  11. VI: Is So Short and So Prayerful That Simplicissimus Thereupon Swoons Away
  12. VII: How Simplicissimus Was in a Poor Lodging Kindly Entreated
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  1. VIII: How Simplicissimus by His Noble Discourse Proclaimed His Excellent Qualities
  2. IX: How Simplicissimus Was Changed from a Wild Beast Into a Christian
  3. X: In What Manner He Learned to Read and Write in the Wild Woods
  4. XI: Discourseth of Foods, Household Stuff, and Other Necessary Concerns, Which Folk Must Have in This Earthly Life
  5. XII: Tells of a Notable Fine Way, to Die Happy and to Have Oneself Buried at Small Cost
  6. XIII: How Simplicissimus Was Driven About Like a Straw in a Whirlpool
  7. XIV: A Quaint Comedia of Five Peasants
  8. XV: How Simplicissimus Was Plundered, and How He Dreamed of the Peasants and How They Fared in Times of War
  9. XVI: Of the Ways and Works of Soldiers Nowadays, and How Hardly a Common Soldier Can Get Promotion
  10. 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
  11. XVIII: How Simplicissimus Took His First Step Into the World and That with Evil Luck
  12. XIX: How Simplicissimus Was Captured by Hanau and Hanau by Simplicissimus
  13. XX: In What Wise He Was Saved from Prison and Torture
  14. XXI: How Treacherous Dame Fortune Cast on Simplicissimus a Friendly Glance
  15. XXII: Who the Hermit Was by Whom Simplicissimus Was Cherished
  16. XXIII: How Simplicissimus Became a Page: And Likewise, How the Hermit’s Wife Was Lost
  17. XXIV: How Simplicissimus Blamed the World and Saw Many Idols Therein
  18. XXV: How Simplicissimus Found the World All Strange and the World Found Him Strange Likewise
  19. XXVI: A New and Strange Way for Men to Wish One Another Luck and to Welcome One Another
  20. XXVII: How Simplicissimus Discoursed with the Secretary, and How He Found a False Friend
  21. XXVIII: How Simplicissimus Got Two Eyes Out of One Calf’s-Head
  22. XXIX: How a Man Step by Step May Attain Unto Intoxication and Finally Unawares Become Blind Drunk
  23. XXX: Still Treats of Naught but of Drinking Bouts, and How to Be Rid of Parsons Thereat
  24. XXXI: How the Lord Governor Shot a Very Foul Fox
  25. XXXII: How Simplicissimus Spoiled the Dance
  26. I: How a Goose and a Gander Were Mated
  27. II: Concerning the Merits and Virtues of a Good Bath at the Proper Season
  28. III: How the Other Page Received Payment for His Teaching, and How Simplicissimus Was Chosen to Be a Fool
  29. 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
  30. V: How Simplicissimus Was by Four Devils Brought Into Hell and There Treated with Spanish Wine
  31. VI: How Simplicissimus Went Up to Heaven and Was Turned Into a Calf
  32. VII: How Simplicissimus Accommodated Himself to the State of a Brute Beast
  33. VIII: Discourseth of the Wondrous Memory of Some and the Forgetfulness of Others
  34. IX: Crooked Praise of a Proper Lady
  35. X: Discourseth of Naught but Heroes and Famous Artists
  36. XI: Of the Toilsome and Dangerous Office of a Governor
  37. XII: Of the Sense and Knowledge of Certain Unreasoning Animals
  38. XIII: Of Various Matters Which Whoever Will Know Must Either Read Them or Have Them Read to Him
  39. XIV: How Simplicissimus Led the Life of a Nobleman, and How the Croats Robbed Him of This When They Stole Himself
  40. XV: Of Simplicissimus’ Life with the Troopers, and What He Saw and Learned Among the Croats
  41. XVI: How Simplicissimus Found Goodly Spoils, and How He Became a Thievish Brother of the Woods
  42. XVII: How Simplicissimus Was Present at a Dance of Witches
  43. XVIII: Doth Prove That No Man Can Lay to Simplicissimus’ Charge That He Doth Draw the Long Bow
  44. XIX: How Simplicissimus Became a Fool Again as He Had Been a Fool Before
  45. XX: Is Pretty Long, and Treats of Playing with Dice and What Hangs Thereby
  46. XXI: Is Somewhat Shorter and More Entertaining Than the Last
  47. XXII: A Rascally Trick to Step Into Another Man’s Shoes
  48. XXIII: How Ulrich Herzbruder Sold Himself for a Hundred Ducats
  49. XXIV: How Two Prophecies Were Fulfilled at Once
  50. XXV: How Simplicissimus Was Transformed from a Boy Into a Girl and Fell Into Divers Adventures of Love
  51. XXVI: How He Was Imprisoned for a Traitor and Enchanter
  52. XXVII: How the Provost Fared in the Battle of Wittstock
  53. XXVIII: Of a Great Battle Wherein the Conqueror Is Captured in the Hour of Triumph
  54. XXIX: How a Notably Pious Soldier Fared in Paradise, and How the Huntsman Filled His Place
  55. XXX: How the Huntsman Carried Himself When He Began to Learn the Trade of War: Wherefrom a Young Soldier May Learn Somewhat
  56. XXXI: How the Devil Stole the Parson’s Bacon and How the Huntsman Caught Himself
  57. I: How the Huntsman Went Too Far to the Left Hand
  58. II: How the Huntsman of Soest Did Rid Himself of the Huntsman of Wesel
  59. III: How the Great God Jupiter Was Captured and How He Revealed the Counsels of the Gods
  60. IV: Of the German Hero That Shall Conquer the Whole World and Bring Peace to All Nations
  61. V: How He Shall Reconcile All Religions and Cast Them in the Same Mould
  62. VI: How the Embassy of the Fleas Fared with Jupiter
  63. VII: How the Huntsman Again Secured Honour and Booty
  64. VIII: How He Found the Devil in the Trough, and How Jump-I’-Th’-Field Got Fine Horses
  65. IX: Of an Unequal Combat in Which the Weakest Wins the Day and the Conqueror Is Captured
  66. X: How the Master-General of Ordnance Granted the Huntsman His Life and Held Out Hopes to Him of Great Things
  67. XI: Contains All Manner of Matters of Little Import and Great Imagination
  68. XII: How Fortune Unexpectedly Bestowed on the Huntsman a Noble Present
  69. XIII: Of Simplicissimus’ Strange Fancies and Castles in the Air, and How He Guarded His Treasure
  70. XIV: How the Huntsman Was Captured by the Enemy
  71. XV: On What Condition the Huntsman Was Set Free
  72. XVI: How Simplicissimus Became a Nobleman
  73. XVII: How the Huntsman Disposed Himself to Pass His Six Months: And Also Somewhat of the Prophetess
  74. XVIII: How the Huntsman Went a Wooing, and Made a Trade of It
  75. XIX: By What Means the Huntsman Made Friends, and How He Was Moved by a Sermon
  76. XX: How He Gave the Faithful Priest Other Fish to Fry, to Cause Him to Forget His Own Hoggish Life
  77. XXI: How Simplicissimus All Unawares Was Made a Married Man
  78. XXII: How Simplicissimus Held His Wedding-Feast and How He Purposed to Begin His New Life
  79. XXIII: How Simplicissimus Came to a Certain Town (Which He Nameth for Convenience Cologne) to Fetch His Treasure
  80. XXIV: How the Huntsman Caught a Hare in the Middle of a Town
  81. I: How and for What Reason the Huntsman Was Jockeyed Away Into France
  82. II: How Simplicissimus Found a Better Host Than Before
  83. III: How He Became a Stage Player and Got Himself a New Name
  84. IV: How Simplicissimus Departed Secretly and How He Believed He Had the Neapolitan Disease
  85. V: How Simplicissimus Pondered on His Past Life, and How with the Water Up to His Mouth He Learned to Swim
  86. VI: How He Became a Vagabond Quack and a Cheat
  87. VII: How the Doctor Was Fitted with a Musket Under Captain Curmudgeon
  88. VIII: How Simplicissimus Endured a Cheerless Bath in the Rhine
  89. IX: Wherefore Clergymen Should Never Eat Hares That Have Been Taken in a Snare
  90. X: How Simplicissimus Was All Unexpectedly Quit of His Musket
  91. XI: Discourses of the Order of the Marauder Brothers
  92. XII: Of a Desperate Fight for Life in Which Each Party Doth Yet Escape Death
  93. XIII: How Oliver Conceived That He Could Excuse His Brigand’s Tricks
  94. XIV: How Oliver Explained Herzbruder’s Prophecy to His Own Profit, and So Came to Love His Worst Enemy
  95. XV: How Simplicissimus Thought More Piously When He Went A-Plundering Than Did Oliver When He Went to Church
  96. XVI: Of Oliver’s Descent, and How He Behaved in His Youth, and Specially at School
  97. XVIII: How He Studied at Liège, and How He There Demeaned Himself
  98. XVIII: Of the Homecoming and Departure of This Worshipful Student, and How He Sought to Obtain Advancement in the Wars
  99. XIX: How Simplicissimus Fulfilled Herzbruder’s Prophecy to Oliver Before Yet Either Knew the Other
  100. XX: How It Doth Fare with a Man on Whom Evil Fortune Doth Rain Cats and Dogs
  101. XXI: A Brief Example of That Trade Which Oliver Followed, Wherein He Was a Master and Simplicissimus Should Be a Prentice
  102. XXII: How Oliver Bit the Dust and Took Six Good Men with Him
  103. XXIII: How Simplicissimus Became a Rich Man and Herzbruder Fell Into Great Misery
  104. XXIV: Of the Manner in Which Herzbruder Fell Into Such Evil Plight
  105. I: How Simplicissimus Turned Palmer and Went on a Pilgrimage with Herzbruder
  106. II: How Simplicissimus, Being Terrified of the Devil, Was Converted
  107. III: How the Two Friends Spent the Winter
  108. IV: In What Manner Simplicissimus and Herzbruder Went to the Wars Again and Returned Thence
  109. V: How Simplicissimus Rode Courier and in the Likeness of Mercury Learned from Jove What His Design Was as Regards War and Peace
  110. VI: A Story of a Trick That Simplicissimus Played at the Spa
  111. VII: How Herzbruder Died and How Simplicissimus Again Fell to Wanton Courses
  112. VIII: How Simplicissimus Found His Second Marriage Turn Out, and How He Met with His Dad and Learned Who His Parents Had Been
  113. IX: In What Manner the Pains of Childbirth Came Upon Him, and How He Became a Widower
  114. X: Relation of Certain Peasants Concerning the Wonderful Mummelsee
  115. XI: Of the Marvellous Thanksgiving of a Patient, and of the Holy Thoughts Thereby Awakened in Simplicissimus
  116. XII: How Simplicissimus Journeyed with the Sylphs to the Centre of the Earth
  117. XIII to XVI
  118. 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
  119. XVIII: How Simplicissimus Wasted His Spring in the Wrong Place
  120. XIX
  121. XX: Treats of a Trifling Promenade from the Black Forest to Moscow in Russia
  122. XXI: How Simplicissimus Further Fared in Moscow
  123. XXII: By What a Short and Merry Road He Came Home to His Dad
  124. XXIII: Is Very Short and Concerneth Simplicissimus Alone
  125. XXIV: Why and in What Fashion Simplicissimus Left the World Again
  126. Appendix A
  127. XIX: How Simplicissimus and a Carpenter Escaped from a Shipwreck with Their Lives and Were Thereafter Provided with a Land of Their Own
  128. XX: How They Hired a Fair Cookmaid and by God’s Help Were Rid of Her Again
  129. XXI: How They Thereafter Kept House Together and How They Set to Work
  130. 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
  131. XXIII: In Which the Hermit Concludes His Story and Therewith Ends These His Six Books
  132. Appendix B
  133. Appendix C
  134. Continuatio, XIII
  135. Endnotes
  136. List of Illustrations
  137. Colophon
  138. Uncopyright

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