Complete Romance Drama Poetry
Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Continental European, Drama, Romance, Contemporary
| Author: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ISBN: | 1230000274968 |
| Publisher: | AGEB Publishing | Publication: | October 18, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| ISBN: | 1230000274968 |
| Publisher: | AGEB Publishing |
| Publication: | October 18, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
A German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him are extant.
Contents
Faust
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Erotica Romana
Egmont A Tragedy In Five Acts
Hermann and Dorothea
Autobiography
Iphigenia in Tauris
The Sorrows of Young Werther-
A loosely autobiographical novel, this was Goethe's first major success, turning him from an unknown into a celebrated author practically overnight. The majority of the story is a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist with a very sensitive and passionate temperament, sent to his friend Wilhelm. In these letters Werther gives a very intimate account of his stay in the fictive village Wahlheim, where he meets and falls in love with Charlotte, who is, however, already engaged to an older man named Albert. Despite the pain this causes Werther, he spends the next several months cultivating a close friendship with both of them.
A German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him are extant.
Contents
Faust
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Erotica Romana
Egmont A Tragedy In Five Acts
Hermann and Dorothea
Autobiography
Iphigenia in Tauris
The Sorrows of Young Werther-
A loosely autobiographical novel, this was Goethe's first major success, turning him from an unknown into a celebrated author practically overnight. The majority of the story is a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist with a very sensitive and passionate temperament, sent to his friend Wilhelm. In these letters Werther gives a very intimate account of his stay in the fictive village Wahlheim, where he meets and falls in love with Charlotte, who is, however, already engaged to an older man named Albert. Despite the pain this causes Werther, he spends the next several months cultivating a close friendship with both of them.
