Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Introduction by Nicholas Boyle
A stunning hardcover edition of Goethe's four major works, together with a selection of his finest letters and poems.
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 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…
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May 30, 2000Before 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 he used a literary form, he made it something new. Born in 1749 to a well-to-do family in Frankfurt, he was sent to Strasbourg to earn a law degree. There, he met the poet-philosopher Herder, discovered Shakespeare, and began to write poetry. His play Götz von Berlichingen (1773) made him famous throughout Germany. He was invited to the court of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, where he quickly became a cabinet minister. In 1774 his novel of Romantic melancholy, The Sorrows of a Young Werther,…
The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Selected Poetry
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Introduction by Nicholas Boyle
Maxims and Reflections
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Translated by Elisabeth Stopp; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Peter Hutchinson
Italian Journey
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Foreword by W.H. Auden
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Elective Affinities
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Translated with an Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale
Goethe's Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translated and with an introduction by Walter Kaufmann
Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy
Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Byron's Travels
Lord Byron
Novels, Tales, Journeys
Alexander Pushkin
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Best of Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
Notes from a Dead House
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Babur Nama
Babur
Independent People
Halldor Laxness
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl
Long Island
Colm Tóibín
Curiosities
Anne Fleming
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
Helen Simonson
Alphabetical Diaries
Sheila Heti
My Beloved Life
Amitava Kumar
Precipice
Robert Harris
Dogs and Monsters
Mark Haddon
Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst
The Adversary
Michael Crummey
Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)
David Mitchell
The Fraud
Zadie Smith
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
Alan Bradley
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice & Other Stories
Thomas Mann
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Monkey King
Wu Cheng'en; Edited and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Julia Lovell; Foreword by Gene Luen Yang
Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Botchan
Natsume Soseki
Night Train to the Stars
Kenji Miyazawa