Simplicissimus

The Simplicissimus Project

H.J.C von Grimmelshausen, The Adventurous Simplicissimus, trans. A.T.S.
Goodrick (London: Heinemann, 1912).  With additional explanatory
footnotes by the students of History 315.

The following e-text is the collaborative work of the students enrolled
in History 315, "Europe in the Age of Absolutism, 1648-1789," at The
College of William and Mary (Spring 2002).  Each of the 35 students has
taken an excerpt from A. T. S. Goodrick's 1912 translation of
Grimmelshausen's seventeenth-century German classic, The Adventurous
Simplicissimus [originally titled Der Abentheurliche Simplicissimus
Teutsch (1669)], transferred the text to an html file and added at least
five explanatory footnotes.  As far as I know, this is the first nearly
complete English-language version of Simplicissimus on the Internet
(Goodrick himself expurgated a few chapters he considered irrelevant or
obscene, so his version was also incomplete).  Special thanks go to Rob
Nelson, the IT liaison for the Lyon Gardiner Tyler Department of History,
and to his colleagues at IT, whose technical skill and creativity made
this collaborative project possible.

Ronald Schechter

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Adventurous Simplicissimus. You can search the entire text using the
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Book I, chs. i-v.
Book I, chs. vi-x.
Book I, chs. xi-xiv.
Book I, chs. xv-xix.
Book I, chs. xx-xxiii.
Book I, chs. xxiv-xxvi.
Book I, chs. xxvii-xxxii.
Book II, chs. i-v.
Book II, chs. vi-ix.
Book II, chs. x-xii.
Book II, chs. xiii-xvi.
Book II, chs. xvii-xix.
Book II, chs. xx-xxii.
Book II, chs. xxiii-xxvi.
Book II, chs. xxvii-xxix.
Book II, chs. xxx-xxxi.
Book III, chs. i-iii.
Book III, chs. iv-vii.
Book III, chs. viii-x.
Book III, chs. xi.-xiii.
Book III, chs. xiv-xvii.
Book III, chs. xviii-xxi.
Book III, chs. xxii-xxiv.
Book IV, chs. i-iii.
Book IV, chs. iv-vii.
Book IV, chs. viii-x.
Book IV, chs. xi-xiii.
Book IV, chs. xiv-xvii.
Book IV, chs. xviii-xxi.
Book IV, chs. xxii-xxiv.
Book V, chs. i-iv.
Book V, chs. v-vii.
Book V, chs. viii-xi.
Book V, chs. xii-xix.
Book V, chs. xx-xxiii.
Book V, ch.xxiv.

