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Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Introduction by Nicholas Boyle

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Introduction by Nicholas Boyle
Translated by Various

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Introduction by Nicholas Boyle
Translated by Various

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Part of Everyman's Library Classics Series

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May 30, 2000 | ISBN 9780375410444

Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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About Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the towering figures of world literature, Goethe has never held quite as prominent a place in the English-speaking world as he deserves. This collection of his four major works, together with a selection of his finest letters and poems, shows that he is not only one of the very greatest European writers: he is also accessible, entertaining, and contemporary.

The Sorrows of Young Werther is a story of self-destructive love that made its author a celebrity overnight at the age of twenty-five. Its exploration of the conflicts between ideas and feelings, between circumstance and desire, continues in his controversial novel probing the institution of marriage, Elective Affinities. The cosmic drama of Faust goes far beyond the realism of the novels in a poetic exploration of good and evil, while Italian Journey, written in the author’s old age, recalls his youth in Italy and the impact of Mediterranean culture on a young northerner.

Translators include W. H. Auden, Louise Bogan, David Constantine, Barker Fairley, and Elizabeth Mayer

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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Before he was thirty, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had proven himself a master of the novel, drama, and lyric poetry. But even more impressive than his versatility was his unwillingness ever to settle into a single style or approach; whenever… More about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction

Hardcover | $45.00
Published by Everyman’s Library
May 30, 2000 | 1248 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780375410444
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“Goethe’s greatness is singular: it is difficult to think of any parallel to his achievement . . . At every stage of a long and inwardly turbulent life he rediscovered, or reinvented, himself through his writing, and yet he never significantly repeated himself. For each of the ages of man, which he experienced in his own person, he found a new poetry.”
—from the Introduction by Nicholas Boyle

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