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A Journey from This World to the Next
- Pages
- about 167
- Category
- Literature & Fiction
- Language
- English
- Reading time
- 3.1 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
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 VIII.
The adventures which the author met on his first entrance into 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 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
Whether the ensuing pages were really the dream or vision of some very
pious and holy person; or whether they were really written in the other
world, and sent back to this, which is the opinion of many (though
I think too much inclining to superstition); or lastly, whether, as
infinitely the greatest part imagine, they were really the production
of some choice inhabitant of New Bethlehem, is not necessary nor easy
to determine. It will be abundantly sufficient if I give the reader an
account by what means they came into my possession. Mr.
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