books by Johann Wolfgang Goethe     books:       Faust: Part Two (Oxford World's Classics)2 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 The most faithful of the translations I've read Looking at some reviews by other reviewers, I realized that not everybody has heard of Faust or of Goethe, and I was pretty shocked. The first part of what I'm saying is about this translation. As Luke so graphically showed in his "Translator's introduction", there are many things that pull at the translator's central agenda: rhyme, metre, primary meaning, nuance, and so on, and the translator ...             Theory of Colours6 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dover Publications, 2006 Theory of Colours Excellent             The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings (Signet Classics)10 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Signet Classics, 2005 Simply put : Timeless Currently I'm taking a class in German, as is being taught by a professor from Germany. When pressed on what sorts of things might be a good read from the German catalogue, she pointed me towards the likes of Thomas Mann. Fortunately for me I'm bad with names. I went to the bookstore in search of something to read (because I would like to know more about Germany) but I couldn't remember any of ...             Italian Journey: 1786-1788 (Penguin Classics)9 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Penguin Classics, 1992 The Original Beautiful Mind Goes South In preparation for a trip to Italy, I began reading the accounts of famous travellers to that land: D.H. Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Tobias Smollett, and now Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I had no great expectations but was knocked for a loop from page one. Never before had I encountered a questing mind quite like Goethe's. Almost from the moment to left Carlsbad in September 1786, he was noticing ...             Faust: Part 1 (Penguin Classics)1 review Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Penguin Classics, 2005 Classic, but underwhelming. Interesting work. Why it took decades to finish...I dunno. The contemporary feel of the translation is welcome.             Selected Works (Everyman's Library)4 reviews Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Everyman's Library, 2000 A useful introduction I picked up a copy of this book at the local library when I recently become interested in Goethe, and as an introduction to his life and work I found it really useful. The book's Introduction is written by Goethe's biographer (who has currently published two volumes of a planned three volume biography) and it helps establish the context of Goethe's life and legacy. Of all the texts, I found 'The ...             Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2)19 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Princeton University Press, 1994 The Reviews fail to note.... The most important thing all of the reviews fail to note is that Stuart Atkins was one of the greatest Goethe scholars of the 20th century. I was fortunate enough to take his Faust course almost 40 years ago and it remains one of the high points of my university experience.             Maxims and Reflections (Penguin Classics)6 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Penguin Classics, 1999 The Father of German Romanticism Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (born Aug. 28,1749,Frankfurt am Main-died March 22,1832,Weimar,Saxe-Weimar). German poet,novelist,playright and natural philosopher.His chief masterpiece,the philosophical drama FAUST (Part 1,1808;Part 11 1832) concerns the struggle of the soul for knowledge,power,happiness and salvation.Maxims and Reflections is a collection of thoughts and observations, covering a ...             The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics)65 reviews Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Modern Library, 2005 Masterpiece A masterpiece of Teenage Angst. If you are young, read this to educate yourself at how complicated your emotions really are. Much in the way Russian novelists create their characters, Goethe does the same, but with German flair.             Faust: Part One (Oxford World's Classic)11 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 A beautiful work about a soul's damnation. This is definitely Goethe's masterwork, and it is beautifully written. Everyone knows about the man who sold his soul to the devil, but everyone should read this poem in order to experience the beautiful words and images that Goethe created. This is a true tragedy, and we watch helpless as the pre-ordained conclusion is revealed. I am glad that I took the time to read this.             Goethe on Science: A Selection of Goethe's Writings2 reviews Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Jeremy Naydler Floris Books, 1997 wonderful little book on Goethean science A wonderful little book maybe to accompany the far more developed one by Henri Bortoft, "The Wholeness of Nature". It takes many excerpts from Goethe's approach to science and includes some of his major essays in the area. If you want a starter in this subject buy it if you want real understanding in depth get Bortoft's book. The book considers many aspects such plant metamorphosis, colour ...             Faust Parts One And Two1 review Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Howard Brenton, ... Nick Hern Books, 2000 Excellent poem dealing with humanity's place in the universe Faust is an epic poem penned by the incomparable Goethe. He, the German Shakespeare, writes brilliantly of the universal scheme including God, Satan, and all manner of other creatures. At the center, however, is the good Dr. Faust. Faust is the subject of a bet between God and Mephistopheles. The story is thus set and Faust and Mephistopheles take to the world on a journey which leads the doctor ...             The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Novella (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 11) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Princeton University Press, 1995 Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the extremes of the subjective experience through the novel's depiction of a sensitive young man caught up in a love impossible to fulfill. In Elective Affinities, a novel of tragic love, Goethe employs ...             Goethe's Faust29 reviews Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Anchor, 1962 My favorite translation Goethe makes me wish I could be handy with other languages, including German. Walter Kaufmann's translation was my introduction to "Faust" but I bought several others to compare how differently they would measure up to Kaufmann's. Since I do not know German I am left with appreciating the sense of what Goethe intended. One encounter seals my devotion to Kaufmann. As Mephisto and Faust approach ...             Conversations Of Goethe6 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2005 Essential reading; the mind of the Universal Genius revealed For those who do not know anything about Goethe at all, 'Conversations' may not be a good place to start - but for those who are a little familiar with Goethe, 'Conversations of Goethe' makes for fascinating reading. Very rarely do we have the life of a genius so well and closely documented. This book is not a record of formal interviews; it is a record by Eckermann, Goethe's good friend, who ...             Essays on Art and Literature (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 3)3 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Princeton University Press, 1994 Wolfgang's essay's and poetry in general wolfgang is an interesting author. many of his poems and essays are about romance and love. if you like reading abstract poetry and getting into sweet and very interesting storites you will love Wolfgang!             Elective Affinities (Oxford World's Classics) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters with the monstrous consequences of repressing what little "real life" they have in themselves, a life so far removed from their natural ...             Faust: Part 2 (Penguin Classics)2 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Penguin Classics, 1960 The most elegant of the translations I've read Looking at some reviews by other reviewers, I realized that not everybody has heard of Faust or of Goethe, and I was pretty shocked. The first part of what I'm saying is about this translation. As Luke so graphically showed in his "Translator's introduction", there are many things that pull at the translator's central agenda: rhyme, metre, primary meaning, nuance, and so on, and the translator ...             Selected Poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Penguin Classics)3 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Penguin Classics, 2005 Good collection of Goethe This new, bilingual selection of Goethe's poetry is very good. The editor and translator, David Luke, has brought together one volume of some of Goethe's best. Luke presents the poems in chronological order, allowing the reader to follow the development of Goethe's genius over his long and fruitful career. This volume includes 100 of Goethe's best and most famous, including "An den Mond," an ...             Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1901)3 reviews Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007 A Fantastic Book That Never Leaves You As one of the most prolific and multi-talented authors to ever set words to page, Goethe is often considered the master of early romantic works and even the patriarch of the modern novel. Fittingly, Goethe's numerous interests and telents, including law, geology, science and literature, come to life in Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship the precursor to Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years. 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