The autobiography of Goethe
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Authors, German
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Authors, German
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 1850
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Page : 418 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0871404915
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.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 1850
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Page : 544 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 1848
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Author : John Armstrong
Publisher : Allan Lane
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, with little relevance to the way we live today. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the desire for literary success- he wanted (much the same as us) to live life well. In Love, Life, Goethe, John Armstrong subtly and imaginatively explores the ways that we can learn from Goethe, whether in love, suffering, friendship or family. At the centre of this project is happiness- in an imperfect world, how can we live well with what we have, and accept what we haven't? From our lives at home, to our relationships, the politicians we choose, and our relationship with money, John Armstrong explores the main themes of our lives through the life of Goethe, and helps us learn how to live.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0141939184
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.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Page : 730 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 1994-07-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691036571
Part of an exhaustive series which provides English translations of a representative proportion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work, this volume contains such essays as "On Gothic Architecture", "On the Laocoon" and "Shakespeare: a Tribute."