The Adventurous Simplicissimus / being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim

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The first English Edition of Simplicissimus is limited to 1000 copies of which this is No . 11.
Copyright 1912
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
INTRODUCTION
BOOK I.
Chap. i. : Treats of Simplicissimus' rustic descent and of his upbringing answering thereto
Chap. ii. : Of the first step towards that dignity to which Simplicissimus attained, to which is added the praise of shepherds and other excellent precepts
Chap. iii. : Treats of the sufferings of a faithful bagpipe
Chap. iv. : How Simplicissimus' palace was stormed, plundered, and ruinated, and in what sorry fashion the soldiers kept house there
Chap. v. : How Simplicissimus took french leave and how he was terrified by dead trees
Chap. vi. : Is so short and so prayerful that Simplicissimus thereupon swoons away