The Sorrows of Young Werther is a story of self-destructive love that made its author a celebrity overnight at the age of twenty-five. Its exploration of the conflicts between ideas and feelings, between circumstance and desire, continues in his controversial novel probing the institution of marriage, Elective Affinities. The cosmic drama of Faust goes far beyond the realism of the novels in a poetic exploration of good and evil, while Italian Journey, written in the author’s old age, recalls his youth in Italy and the impact of Mediterranean culture on a young northerner.
Translators include W. H. Auden, Louise Bogan, David Constantine, Barker Fairley, and Elizabeth Mayer
The Sorrows of Young Werther is a story of self-destructive love that made its author a celebrity overnight at the age of twenty-five. Its exploration of the conflicts between ideas and feelings, between circumstance and desire, continues in his controversial novel probing the institution of marriage, Elective Affinities. The cosmic drama of Faust goes far beyond the realism of the novels in a poetic exploration of good and evil, while Italian Journey, written in the author’s old age, recalls his youth in Italy and the impact of Mediterranean culture on a young northerner.
Translators include W. H. Auden, Louise Bogan, David Constantine, Barker Fairley, and Elizabeth Mayer
Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Introduction by Nicholas Boyle
1248Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Introduction by Nicholas Boyle
1248Hardcover
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780375410444 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 05/30/2000 |
Series: | Everyman's Library Classics Series |
Pages: | 1248 |
Sales rank: | 689,370 |
Product dimensions: | 5.43(w) x 8.29(h) x 2.20(d) |