Book V
Chap. i.: How Simplicissimus turned palmer and went on a pilgrimage with Herzbruder
Chap. ii.: How Simplicissimus, being terrified of the devil, was converted
Chap. iii.: How the two friends spent the winter
Chap. iv.: In what manner Simplicissimus and Herzbruder went to the wars again and returned thence
Chap. v.: How Simplicissimus rode courier and in the likeness of Mercury learned from Jove what his design was as regards war and peace
Chap. vi.: A story of a trick that Simplicissimus played at the spa
Chap. vii.: How Herzbruder died and how Simplicissimus again fell to wanton courses
Chap. viii.: How Simplicissimus found his second marriage turn out, and how he met with his dad and learned who his parents had been
Chap. ix.: In what manner the pains of childbirth came upon him, and how he became a widower
Chap. x.: Relation of certain peasants concerning the wonderful Mummelsee
Chap. xi.: Of the marvellous thanksgiving of a patient, and of the holy thoughts thereby awakened in Simplicissimus
Chap. xii.: How Simplicissimus journeyed with the sylphs to the centre of the earth
Chap. xvii.: How Simplicissimus returned from the middle of the earth, and of his strange fancies, his air-castles, his calculations; and how he reckoned without his host
Chap. xviii.: How Simplicissimus wasted his spring in the wrong place
Chap. xx.: Treats of a trifling promenade from the Black Forest to Moscow in Russia
Chap. xxi.: How Simplicissimus further fared in Moscow
Chap. xxii.: By what a short and merry road he came home to his dad
Chap. xxiii.: Is very short and concerneth Simplicissimus alone
Chap. xxiv.: Why and in what fashion Simplicissimus left the world again
APPENDIX A
CONTINUATION
Chap. xix.: How Simplicissimus and a carpenter escaped from a shipwreck with their lives and were thereafter provided with a land of their own
Chap. xx.: How they hired a fair cook-maid and by God’s help were rid of her again
Chap. xxi.: How they thereafter kept house together and how they set to work
Chap. 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
Chap. xxiii.: In which the hermit concludes his story and therewith ends these his six books
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
“Continuatio,” chap. xiii.: How Simplicissimus in return for a night’s lodging, taught his host a curious art