The narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews, gently satirizes life here on earth.

This is the book that founded a world outlook, and its author did not want to write it. Engels says so in the first sentence of the first preface: "The following work is by no means the fruit of any 'inner urge'. On the contrary."Eugen Duehring, a lecturer at Berlin University who wrote at enormous speed on everything, had announced himself a socialist - and not merely a socialist but the author of a complete new system covering philosophy, political economy and the shape of the so...