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Selected Works: Sorrows of Young Werther; Elective Affinities; Faust; Italian Journey; Novella; Selected Poems & Letters (Everyman's Library Classics Number 246)
de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Everyman's Library, London, 1999. First Thus. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Titles; contents list; introduction by Nicholas Boyle; select bibliography & chronology to front. Integral grey silk bookmark. Though one of the towering figures of world literature, Goethe has long been neglected in the Anglo-Saxon world. This collection of his four major works, together with a selection of his finest letters and poems, should show 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 which made the twenty-five year old author a celebrity overnight. Its exploration of the conflicts between ideas and feelings, circumstance and desire, continues in 'Elective Affinities'. The cosmic drama of 'Faust' goes far beyond the realism of the novels in a poetic exploration of good and evil, while the 'Italian Journey', written in the author's old age, recalls his youth in Italy and the impact of Mediterranean culture on a young Northerner. Four very different books which illustrate the extraordinary scope and brilliance of Germany's greatest writer. Translators include W. H. Auden, Louise Bogan, David Constantine, Barker Fairley and Elizabeth Mayer. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. LXiii + 1180. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Gilt titles on black panel spine. green cloth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; Fiction; German Literature; Poetry; Theatre & Plays. ISBN: 1857152468. ISBN/EAN: 9781857152463. Inventory No: 4780. . 9781857152463 This book is fairly heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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Before he was thirty, Goethe had proven himself a master of the novel, the 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 of 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 Sachsen-Weimar, where he quickly became a cabinet minister. In 1774 his novel of Romantic melancholy, The Sorrows of a Young Werther , electrified all of Europe. Soon as he was at work on the first version of his Faust , which would finally appear as a fragment in 1790. In the 1780s Goethe visited England and immersed himself in classical poetry. The next decade saw the appearance of Wihelm Meister's Apprenticeship , his novel of a young artist education, and a wealth of poetry and criticism. He returned to the Faust material around the turn of the century and completed Part 1 in 1808. The later years of his life were devoted to a bewildering array of pursuits: research in botany and in a theory of colors, a novel ( Elective Affinities ), the evocative poems of the West-Easters Divan , and his great autobiography, Poetry and Truth . In his eighties he prepared a forty-volume edition of his works; the forty-first volume, published after his death in 1832, was the send part of Faust. Goethe's wide-ranging mind could never be confined to one form or one philosophy. When asked for the theme of his masterwork, Faust , he could only say. “From heaven through all the world to hell”; his subject was nothing smaller.
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- Título
- Selected Works: Sorrows of Young Werther; Elective Affinities; Faust; Italian Journey; Novella; Selected Poems & Letters (Everyman's Library Classics Number 246)
- Autor
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine Condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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- First Thus
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- ISBN 10
- 1857152468
- ISBN 13
- 9781857152463
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- Everyman's Library
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
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- BZDB227 Literature & Literary/German Literature/Theatre & Plays/Poetry/Fiction/Novels Literature & Literary; Fiction; German Literature; Poetry; Theatre & Plays. Unbranded ISBN: 1857152468 EAN: 9781857152463 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Se
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