The Complete Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (illustrated)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era.He was a German writer and statesman. His works include: four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour.This collection includes the following:The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1794)Elective Affinities (1809)Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years (1821)The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1795)A Tale (1797)The Good Women (1797)The Wayward Lover (1768)The Fellow Culprits (1769)Goetz von Berlichingen (1773)Clavigo (1774)Egmont (1788)The Brother and Sister (1776)Stella (1776)Iphigenia in Tauris (1779)Torquato Tasso (1790)The Natural Daughter (1803)Faust: Part One (1808)Faust: Part Two (1832)The Poems of GoetheReynard the Fox (1794)The Siege of Mainz (1793)Theory of Colours (1810)Introduction to ‘The Propyläen’ (1798)Winckelmann and His Age (1805)The Travel WritingLetters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy (1816)The CriticismGoethe the Writer by Ralph Waldo EmersonGoethe by C. E. VaughanGoethe by John Cowper PowysGoethe’s Faust by George SantayanaShakespeare and Goethe by David MassonGoethe’s Theory of Colors by John TyndallExtracts of Correspondence by Sir Walter ScottThe AutobiographyTruth and Fiction Relating to My Life (1811)The BiographiesConversations with Goethe (1836) by Johann Peter EckermannThe Life of Goethe by Calvin Thomas (1886)Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe by James Sime (1888)
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