Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Title Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe PDF eBook
Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher Everyman's Library
Pages 1256
Release 2000-05-30
Genre Fiction
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Contains a brief biography of Goethe, a collection of some of his best-known works, and a sampling of his personal correspondence. Includes his four major works, together with a selection of his finest letters and poems. 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 effect of Mediterranean culture on a young northerner. Translators include W. H. Auden, Louise Bogan, David Constantine, Barker Fairley, and Elizabeth Mayer.

Goethe on Art

Goethe on Art
Title Goethe on Art PDF eBook
Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 276
Release 1980-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 9780520039964

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Maxims and Reflections

Maxims and Reflections
Title Maxims and Reflections PDF eBook
Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 237
Release 2005-12-01
Genre Reference
ISBN 0141939184

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Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics – and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man. They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers.

Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry
Title Selected Poetry PDF eBook
Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher
Pages 283
Release 2005
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Arranged chronologically, David Luke's verse translations are set alongside the German originals to give a picture of Goethe's poetic development.

Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

Goethe: Life as a Work of Art
Title Goethe: Life as a Work of Art PDF eBook
Author Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher Liveright Publishing
Pages 405
Release 2017-05-16
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0871404915

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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and Kirkus Reviews This “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age. A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and—as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes—a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski has scoured Goethe’s entire oeuvre, relying exclusively on primary sources, including his correspondence with contemporaries, to produce a “fresh and authentic” (Economist) portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Skillfully blending “artistic analysis with swift, sharp renderings” of the great political and intellectual figures Goethe encountered, “[Safranski’s] portrait of the prolific genius leaves the reader with lasting awe, even envy” of a monumental legacy (The New Yorker). As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethe’s greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.

Goethe's Faust

Goethe's Faust
Title Goethe's Faust PDF eBook
Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher
Pages 714
Release 1912
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The Essential Goethe

The Essential Goethe
Title The Essential Goethe PDF eBook
Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 1051
Release 2018-06-12
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0691181047

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First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.