Transcriber's Note:
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2. Book V skips numbering between Chap. xviii. and xx.
THE ADVENTUROUS
Simplicissimus
The first English Edition of
Simplicissimus
is limited to 1000 copies
of which this is No. 11.
Der Abentheursiche
SIMPLICISSIMUS
Teutsch
Das ist:Die Beschreibung dess Lebes eines
seltzamen Vaganten / genant Melchior
Sternfels von Fuchshaim / wo und welcher
gestalt Er nemlich in diese Welt kommen / was
er darinn gesehen / gelernet / erfahren und
aussgestanden / auch warumb er solche wieder
feywillig quittirt.
Überauss lustig / und männiglich
nutzlich zu lesen.
An Tag geben
Von
German Schleifheim
von Sulsfort.
Monpelgart /
Gedruckt bey Johann Fillion /
Im Jahr M DC LXIX.
Facsimile title page of the first German Edition.
THE ADVENTUROUS
Simplicissimus
BEING THE DESCRIPTION OF THE LIFE
OF A STRANGE VAGABOND NAMED
MELCHIOR STERNFELS VON FUCHSHAIM
WRITTEN IN GERMAN BY
HANS JACOB CHRISTOPH
VON GRIMMELSHAUSEN
AND NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME
DONE INTO ENGLISH
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
MCMXII
Copyright 1912
TO
DR. OTTO SCHLAPP
Lecturer in German in the University of Edinburgh,
as a tribute to his successful endeavours
to promote the knowledge of the
German Classics in Britain, and in
memory of a mutual friend,
Robert Fitzroy Bell
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
BOOK I.
Chap. i.: Treats of Simplicissimus' rustic descent and of hisupbringing answering thereto
Chap. ii.: Of the first step towards that dignity to whichSimplicissimus attained, to which is added the praise of shepherds andother excellent precepts
Chap. iii.: Treats of the sufferings of a faithful bagpipe
Chap. iv.: How Simplicissimus' palace was stormed, plundered, andruinated, and in what sorry fashion the soldiers kept house there
Chap. v.: How Simplicissimus took french leave and how he wasterrified by dead trees
Chap. vi.: Is so short and so prayerful that Simplicissimus thereuponswoons away
Chap. vii.: How Simpli