Produced by Charles Keller
A JOURNEY FROM THIS WORLD TO THE NEXT
By Henry Fielding
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION
BOOK I
CHAPTER I. The author dies, meets with Mercury, and is by him conducted to the stage which sets out for the other world
CHAPTER II. In which the author first refutes some idle opinions concerning spirits, and then the passengers relate their several deaths.
CHAPTER III. The adventures we met with in the City of Diseases
CHAPTER IV. Discourses on the road, and a description of the palace of Death
CHAPTER V. The travelers proceed on their journey, and meet several spirits who are coming into the flesh
CHAPTER VI. An account of the wheel of fortune, with a method of preparing a spirit for this world
CHAPTER VII. The proceedings of judge Minos at the gate of Elysium
CHAPTER VIII. The adventures which the author met on his first entrance into Elysium
CHAPTER IX. More adventures in Elysium
CHAPTER X. The author is surprised at meeting Julian the apostate in Elysium; but is satisfied by him by what means he procured his entrance there. Julian relates his adventures in the character of a slave
CHAPTER XI. In which Julian relates his adventures in the character of an avaricious Jew
CHAPTER XII. What happened to Julian in the characters of a general, an heir, a carpenter, and a beau
CHAPTER XIII. Julian passes into a fop
CHAPTER XIV. Adventures in the person of a monk
CHAPTER XV. Julian passes into the character of a fiddler
CHAPTER XVI. The history of the wise man
CHAPTER XVII. Julian enters into the person of a king
CHAPTER XVIII. Julian passes into a fool
CHAPTER XIX. Julian appears in the character of a beggar
CHAPTER XX. Julian performs the part of a statesman
CHAPTER XXI. Julian's adventures in the post of a soldier
CHAPTER XXII. What happened to Julian in the person of a tailor
CHAPTER XXIII. The life of alderman Julian
CHAPTER XXIV. Julian recounts what happened to him while he was a poet
CHAPTER XXV. Julian performs the parts of a knight and a dancing-master
BOOK II.
CHAPTER VII. Wherein Anna Boleyn relates the history of her life
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A journey from this world to the next — Volume 2
- 2: Which I am abundantly bound to acknowledge
- 3: Perhaps you never heard of me my name is Mercury
- 4: By giving me medicines to throw out my distemper
- 5: But the physicians were not agreed concerning her distemper
- 6: Excepting the above mentioned savor
- 7: As well apprehending our business
- 8: The last containing eleven syllables
- 9: Adorned with several statues and bustoes
- 10: Which is plentifully gilt with gold on the outside
- 11: And whom I imagined to be Lewis XIV himself
- 12: The future coachman then replied
- 13: What wanton delight in mischief must taint his composition
- 14: This decoction is so extremely bitter and unpleasant
- 15: Whom I soon discovered to be the celebrated judge Minos
- 16: And Minos desired him to walk in
- 17: Says Minos on second consideration
- 18: Minos declaring there was not a single prude in Elysium
- 19: CHAPTER IX More adventures in Elysium
- 20: And presently discerned the former to be Oliver Cromwell
- 21: Leibnitz had assured me to the contrary
- 22: Asserted her innocence and my own guilt
- 23: Instead of high food to fatten and pamper my flesh
- 24: And after some preface began to accuse Timasius
- 25: Who was a great lover of Falernian wine
- 26: But I reconciled taking the overplus to myself as usance
- 27: A great favorite of the emperor Zeno
- 28: When I came to the gate Minos again seemed at first doubtful
- 29: A favorite of the emperor Justinian II
- 30: My design was to betray him to Apsimar
- 31: And carried before the same magistrate
- 32: And would learn to play on the fiddle
- 33: I did not apprehend they were extremely great
- 34: A friend brought me word that Ariadne was married
- 35: Could one but see what passes in the closet of wisdom
- 36: Nothing could be simpler than to endeavor at Elysium
- 37: My levies were instantly complete
- 38: My stratagem was this I had about me a dexterous fellow
- 39: The good man so plagued me with miracle after miracle
- 40: And pursued me so very assiduously with flattery
- 41: In the behavior of the courtiers for
- 42: The politician leaves but a little behind
- 43: While his apparel is not worth a groat
- 44: She was the daughter of a neighboring beggar
- 45: After the death of Harold and Hardicanute
- 46: Upon this my son Swane invaded the coasts with several ships
- 47: Who were under my government as earl of Kent but
- 48: He had of himself retired to his monastery in Normandy
- 49: For the garrison making a brisk sally
- 50: I obtained leave to go to Dover
- 51: As we tailors have from that admiration
- 52: This is the reason that tailors
- 53: She was so profusely extravagant
- 54: Till the archbishop of Canterbury
- 55: I was a little nettled at this behavior
- 56: And I was in contempt called the poet
- 57: Instead of being preferred or commended for the second
- 58: And on myself as the greatest proficient in it
- 59: And zeal for what they themselves profess
- 60: My passion every day increased
- 61: And used means for my recovery
- 62: Notwithstanding this great success of my schemes
- 63: The earl of Northumberland's eldest son
- 64: I found this discourse was very displeasing
- 65: That he stood amazed for some time
- 66: Joined to his eager desire to possess my person
- 67: I was created marchioness of Pembroke
- 68: For the whole time I was in this envied
- 69: Footnote 11 Here ends this curious manuscript