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Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Classics
Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their existence is thrown into chaos when two visitors Eduard's friend the Captain and Charlotte's passionate young ward Ottilie provoke unexpected attraction and forbidden love. Taking ...Show more
Faust, Part I by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Goethe
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does ...Show more
Faust Parts 1 & 2 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Hailed as Germany's greatest contribution to world literature, Goethe's Faust drew upon a folktale and Marlowe's Dr. Faustus for inspiration. But in this epic version, Faust sells his soul not for magic powers but for a heightened sense of existence. Part One covers his pact with Mephistopheles and sedu ...Show more
Italian Journey 1786-1788 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on a journey to Italy to fulfil a personal and artistic quest and to find relief from his responsibilities and the agonies of unrequited love. As he travelled to Venice, Rome, Naples and Sicily ...Show more
Selected Poetry: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Poetry | Series: PENGUIN CLASSICS
'Shall I embrace you, must I let you go? Again you haunt me: come then, hold me fast!' Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical and the works selected in this volume represent over sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus' he rails against religi ...Show more
The Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Matthew Bell (Introduction by, Editor)
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Category: Critical Thinking
The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides English-language readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work by one of the greatest writers in world history. Goethe's work as playwr ...Show more
The Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Matthew Bell
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Category: Critical Thinking
The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides English-language readers easier access than ever before to the w ...Show more
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguins Classics Ser.
A key work in the German 'Sturm und Drang' movement, Johann Goethe's autobiographical epistolary novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is a defining moment in early Romanticism, which has influenced writers from Mary Shelley to Thomas Mann. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated from with an intro ...Show more
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the emotional journey of a young man who, during a stay in a picturesque German village, falls in love with Lotte, a local woman engaged to another man. As he realizes that his pas ...Show more
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