Chapter I: Front Matter

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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