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Title: From This World to the Next

Author: Henry Fielding

Release Date: July 27, 2008 [EBook #1147]

Language: English

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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.
Jul