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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 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greater knowledge; ...Show more
Faust - A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Robert David MacDonald (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Trans. by Robert David Macdonald Ser.
The power and magic of the Faust story, the man who, in a pact with the Devil, trades his soul in return for a period of total knowledge and absolute power, is one of the most potent of all European myths. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) worked on this poetic drama in burst from his twenties unti ...Show more
Faust (Part 2) by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Read by); David Constantine (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator); A. S. Byatt (Preface by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Faust Ser.
Der 1749 in Frankfurt am Main geborene Johann Wolfgang von Goethe gilt als bedeutendster deutscher Dichter. Seine Werke gehören zu den wichtigsten der Weltliteratur."Faust" ist ein Meisterwerk. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Pakt mit dem Teufel. Der zentrale Konflikt rankt sich um die Frage nach der Wahrheit ...Show more
Faust Part 2 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Classics
The second part of Goethe s masterpiece opens with Faust struggling to recover from the death of his beloved Gretchen. The quick-witted demon Mephistopheles soon persuades him to look beyond his sorrow and enter the world of politics and power, but the great scholar is still eager for new sensations, an ...Show more
Faust, Part I by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Goethe by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library
Italian Journey 1786-1788 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #36 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Classics
'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Pe ...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