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Solomon Maimon. Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography
Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography
Table of Contents
"TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
SOLOMON MAIMON
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
My Grandfather's Housekeeping
CHAPTER II
First Reminiscences of Youth
CHAPTER III
Private Education and Independent Study
CHAPTER IV
Jewish Schools—The Joy of being released from them causes a stiff foot
CHAPTER V
My Family is driven into Misery, and an old Servant loses by his great Faithfulness a Christian Burial
CHAPTER VI
New Abode, new Misery—The Talmudist
CHAPTER VII
Joy endureth but a little while
CHAPTER VIII
The Pupil knows more than the Teacher—A theft à la Rousseau, which is discovered—"The ungodly provideth, and the righteous putteth it on."
CHAPTER IX
Love Affairs and Matrimonial Proposals—The Song of Solomon may be used in Matchmaking—A new Modus Lucrandi—Smallpox
CHAPTER X
I become an object of contention, get two wives at once, and am kidnapped at last
CHAPTER XI
My Marriage in my Eleventh Year makes me the Slave of my Wife, and procures for me Cudgellings from my Mother-in-law—A Ghost of Flesh and Blood
CHAPTER XII
The Secrets of the Marriage State—Prince Radzivil,[24] or what is not all allowed in Poland?
CHAPTER XIII
Endeavour after mental Culture amid ceaseless Struggles with Misery of every kind
CHAPTER XIV
I study the Cabbalah, and become at last a Physician
CHAPTER XV
A brief Exposition of the Jewish Religion, from its Origin down to the most recent Times
CHAPTER XVI
Jewish Piety and Penances
CHAPTER XVII
Friendship and Enthusiasm
CHAPTER XVIII
The Life of a Family-Tutor
CHAPTER XIX
Also on a Secret Society, and therefore a Long Chapter
CHAPTER XX
Continuation of the Former, and also something about Religious Mysteries
CHAPTER XXI
Journeys to Königsberg, Stettin and Berlin, for the purpose of extending my knowledge of men
CHAPTER XXII
Deepest Stage of Misery, and Deliverance
CHAPTER XXIII
Arrival in Berlin—Acquaintances—Mendelssohn—Desperate Study of Metaphysics—Doubts—Lectures on Locke and Adelung
CHAPTER XXIV
Mendelssohn—A chapter devoted to the memory of a worthy friend
CHAPTER XXV
My aversion at first for belles lettres, and my subsequent conversion—Departure from Berlin—Sojourn in Hamburg—I drown myself in the same way as a bad actor shoots himself—An old fool of a woman falls in love with me, but her addresses are rejected
CHAPTER XXVI
I return to Hamburg—A Lutheran Pastor pronounces me to be a scabby Sheep, and unworthy of Admission into the Christian Fold—I enter the Gymnasium, and frighten the Chief Rabbi out of his Wits
CHAPTER XXVII
Third Journey to Berlin—Frustrated Plan of Hebrew Authorship—Journey to Breslau—Divorce
CHAPTER XXVIII
Fourth Journey to Berlin—Unfortunate Circumstances—Help—Study of Kant's Writings—Characteristic of my own Works
CONCLUDING CHAPTER
FOOTNOTES:
Notes on some Books of Special Interest
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