Chapter II: 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

_Chap. vii._: How Simplicissimus was in a poor lodging kindly entreated

_Chap. viii._: How Simplicissimus by his noble discourse proclaimed his excellent qualities

_Chap. ix._: How Simplicissimus was changed from a wild beast into a Christian

_Chap. x._: In what manner he learned to read and write in the wild woods

_Chap. xi._: Discourseth of foods, household stuff, and other necessary concerns, which folk must have in this earthly life

_Chap. xii._: Tells of a notable fine way, to die happy and to have oneself buried at a small cost

_Chap. xiii._: How Simplicissimus was driven about like a straw in a whirlpool

_Chap. xiv._: A quaint comedia of five peasants

_Chap. xv._: How Simplicissimus was plundered, and how he dreamed of the peasants and how they fared in times of war

_Chap. xvi._: Of the ways and works of soldiers nowadays, and how hardly a common soldier can get promotion

_Chap. 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

_Chap. xviii._: How Simplicissimus took his first step into the world and that with evil luck

_Chap. xix._: How Simplicissimus was captured by Hanau and Hanau by Simplicissimus

_Chap. xx._: In what wise he was saved from prison and torture

_Chap. xxi._: How treacherous Dame Fortune cast on Simplicissimus a friendly glance

_Chap. xxii._: Who the hermit was by whom Simplicissimus was cherished

_Chap. xxiii._: How Simplicissimus became a page: and likewise, how the hermit's wife was lost

_Chap. xxiv._: How Simplicissimus blamed the world and saw many idols therein

_Chap. xxv._: How Simplicissimus found the world all strange and the world found him strange likewise

_Chap. xxvi._: A new and strange way for men to wish one another luck and to welcome one another

_Chap. xxvii._: How Simplicissimus discoursed with the secretary, and how he found a false friend

_Chap. xxviii._: How Simplicissimus got two eyes out of one calf's-head

_Chap. xxix._: How a man step by step may attain unto intoxication and finally unawares become blind drunk

_Chap. xxx._: Still treats of naught but of drinking bouts, and how to be rid of parsons thereat

_Chap. xxxi._: How the Lord Governor shot a very foul fox

_Chap. xxxii._: How Simplicissimus spoiled the dance