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The Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Matthew Bell
Category: Non-Fiction
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 Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Matthew Bell (Introduction by, Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction
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 Metamorphosis of Plants by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Category: Gardening
The Metamorphosis of Plants, originally published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures ...Show more
The Sorrows Of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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 and Selected Writings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Category: Classics | Series: Signet Classics
"The Sorrows of Young Werther" brings to life an idyllic German village where a youth on vacation meets and falls for lovely Charlotte. The tragedy unfolds in the letters Werther writes to his friend about Charlotte's charms, even after he realizes his love will remain unrequited. "Reflections on Werthe ...Show more