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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Book List in Order: 47 titles
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship And Travels
- 1824
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
- Feb-2007
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Since the year 1795, when it first appeared at Berlin, numerous editions of Meister have been printed: critics of all ranks, and some of them dissenting widely from its doctrines, have loaded it with encomiums; its songs and poems are familiar to ...
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
- May-2011
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The Sorrows of Young Werther was Goethe's first major success, turning him from an unknown into a celebrated author practically overnight. Goethe distanced himself from The Sorrows of Young Werther in his later years. He regretted his fame and making...
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Hermann and Dorothea
- Apr-2012
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is widely considered the most important German writer, but that would truly belittle the span of his work. In fact, Goethe dabbled in poetry, drama, literature, theology and philosophy on a global stage, taking a great inte...
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Campaign in France
- Aug-2012
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In this book Goethe gives a detailed description of the campaign of allied armies (Prussia, Royalists and Austrians) led by the Duke of Brunswick against the French Revolutionaries in 1792. The campaign culminated in the Battle of Valmy where the All...
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The Sorrows of a Young Werther and Selected Writings
- Mar-2013
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The Sorrows of Young Werther brings to life an idyllic German village where a youth on vacation meets and falls for lovely Charlotte. The tragedy unfolds in the letters Werther writes to his friend about Charlotte’s charms, even after he realizes h...
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The Poems of Goethe
- May-2013
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THE reluctance which must naturally be felt by any one in venturing to give to the world a book such as the present, where the beauties of the great original must inevitably be diminished, if not destroyed, in the process of passing through the trans...
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Iphigenia in Tauris
- Jun-2013
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Beneath your leafy gloom, ye waving boughs Of this old, shady, consecrated grove, As in the goddess' silent sanctuary, With the same shudd'ring feeling forth I step, As when I trod it first, nor ever here Doth my unquiet spirit feel at home. Long as ...
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Obras de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Nov-2013
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2 obras de Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEscritor alemão e pensador que também fez incursões pelo campo da ciência (1749-1832)Este livro apresenta uma coleção de 2 obras de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.Índice...
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Wilhelm Meister's
- Jul-2015
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Wilhelm Meister's - Apprenticeship and Travels - Translated from the German of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Thomas Carlyle - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (German: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre) is the second novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, pub...
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Wilhelm Meister's Travels
- Jul-2015
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Wilhelm Meister's travels is the fourth novel by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and the sequel to the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Consisting largely of discrete short stories and novellas woven together with elements of...
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Faust by Johann Wolfang Von Goethe
- Nov-2015
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Johhan Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, written between 1806 and 1831, was translated by Bayard Taylor in 1870 and published In 1871. It was illustrated by Harry Clarke in a 1925 edition published by Hartsdale House that was limited to 2,000 copies. Ba...
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Elective Affinities
Condemned as immoral when it was first published, this novel reflects the conflict Goethe felt between his respect for the conventions of marriage and the possibility of spontaneous passion.
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Faust
A classic of world literature, Goethe's Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles_dramatic and lyr...
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Goethe
Eleven plays in the original German: Die Aufgeregten, Egmont, Faust, Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenie, Die Mitschuldigen, Die Naturliche Tochter Torquato Tasso, Satyros, Die Geschwister, and Die Laune des Verliebten. Wikipedia: "Johann Wolfgang von ...
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Goethe's West-Easterly Divan
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. T... -
Goethes S Mtliche Werke
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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Italian Journey: 1786-1788
Goethe's account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the grip of spiritual crisis.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of c... -
Leiden de Jungen Werther
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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Many Colored Threads From The Writings Of Goethe
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Maxims and Reflections
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 ‘R...
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The New Melusina
Many of the finest stories of magic and fantasy, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using ...
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The Parable
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
This classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the author's philosophy of love and death....
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The Sufferings of Young Werther
"A highly readable, sensitive, and lively Werther. Corngold is both faithful to the German and true to the demands of a modern English text" -- Jeremy Adler, Times Literary SupplementA masterpiece of European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Wer...
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Faust Part Two
This is a new translation of Faust, Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust, Part I was the winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here, Luke expertly imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readabl...
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Faust: A Tragedy in Two Parts and the Urfaust
Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan,...
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The German Refugees
A new translation by an award winning translator rescues this work from being out of print in English. Goethe’s collection of stories (1795) is modelled on the Decameron. A family of German nobles have been forced from their home on the left bank ...
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Goethe, Volume 10
Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and reveal his experimentati...
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Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella
Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the ex...
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Goethe, Volume 9
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young ma...
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The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage
In "The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage,” a man’s passion for a woman is shared -- rather inconveniently -- by his son, and both declare themselves her suitors. The woman struggles to escape their pursuits by implying a rather indelicate state of aff...
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The Man of Fifty
Arriving at the family manor, the Major scarcely recognizes his tall, elegant niece as she rushes out to greet him. Surprise soon turns to satisfaction as he learns that she has confessed to being in love with him -- and he a 50-year-old man! Instan...
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Selected Works
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, sho...
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The Sufferings Of Young Werther And Elective Affinities
The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forewords by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars. Here the English-speaki...
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Tales for Transformation
In 1768, at the age of nineteen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe began to study hermetic literature. This exploration had a huge impact on the early aesthetic education of Europe’s great man of letters, the last renaissance titan. In the years that f...
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Wilhelm Meister
Seduced by the world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumuluous quest of self-discovery. Along his path he finds himself having to negotiate love,...
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Romantic Fairy Tales
The four works collected in this volume reveal the fascinating preoccupations of the German Romantic movement, which revelled in the inexplicable, the uncanny and the unknown and, especially, the mysterious world of the fairy tale. Goethe's richly im...
