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The Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Matthew Bell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Essential Goethe about?
The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in EnglishThe 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 playwright, poet, novelist, and autobiographer is fully represented. In addition to the works for which he is most famous, including Faust Part I and the lyric poems, the volume features important literary works that are rarely published in English—including the dramas Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso and the bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a foundational work in the history of the novel. The volume also offers a selection of Goethe's essays on the arts, philosophy, and science, which give access to the thought of a polymath unrivalled in the modern world. Primarily drawn from Princeton's authoritative twelve-volume Goethe edition, the translations are highly readable and reliable modern versions by scholars of Goethe. The volume also features an extensive introduction
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- Author
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Matthew Bell
- Publisher
- Princeton: Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691181042
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Literary Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (135 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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