Böcker av Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A text for the history of Franco-German relations during the revolutionary period. A product of recollection, and historical hindsight, it offers a document of the military catastrophe exposing the decline of Prussian power since the death of Frederick II, which eventually culminated in Napoleon's devastating 1806 victory at Jena and Auerstedt.

A new translation of one of the greatest monuments of German literature. This translation is of the famous first part (Faust. Der Tragodie erster Teil), and excludes the extraordinary Part 2, completed only at the end of the author's life.

This work, part of the "German Library" series, provides an abridged translation of one of Goethe's greatest works. It tells the tale of Faust, a wandering conjuror in 16th-century Germany who sells his soul to the Devil in return for knowledge and power and subsequently has to battle to regain it.

Goethe is considered as one of the greatest and most accessible of the romantic poets from Germany. The insights and occasions of his poems are common human ground. This selection gives a sampling from work that ranged over many themes.

German poet, dramatist, novelist, translator, scientist and musician, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is universally recognized as a towering figure in world literature.

The reflections on art and literature that the author produced throughout his life are the premise and corollary of his work as poet, novelist, and man of science. This volume contains such important essays as "On Gothic Architecture", "On the Laocoon Group", and "Shakespeare: A Tribute".

This book, "Faust . Theil 1", by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is a replication of a book originally published before 1907. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.

Partly autobiographical, and the prototype for many later Romantic works in its depiction of the sensitive, tortured Romantic hero, Goethe's seminal classic is a timeless masterpiece of world literature.

One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man's pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, and a wealth of poetic and theatrical traditions. What results is a tour de force illustrating Goethe's own moral and artistic development, and a symbolic, cautionary tale of Western humanity striving restlessly and ruthlessly for progress.Capturing the sense, poetic variety, and tonal range of the German original in present-day English, Stuart Atkins's translation presents the formal and rhythmic dexterity of Faust in all its richness and beauty, without recourse to archaisms or interpretive elaborations.Featuring a new introduction by David Wellbery, this Princeton Classics edition of Faust is the definitive English version of a timeless masterpiece.

This work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was translated into English in 1840 by Sir Charles Eastlake (1793-1865), painter and later keeper of the National Gallery. Goethe's 1810 work was rejected by many contemporary scientists because it appeared to contradict the physical laws laid down by Newton. However, its focus on the human perception of the colour spectrum, as opposed to the observable optical phenomenon, was attractive to, and influential upon, artists and philosophers. As Eastlake says in his preface, the work's dismissal on scientific grounds had caused 'a well-arranged mass of observations and experiments, many of which are important and interesting', to be overlooked. Eastlake also puts Goethe's work into its aesthetic and scientific context and describes its original reception. His clear translation of Goethe's observations and experiments on colour and light will appeal to anyone interested in our responses to art.

John Oxenford (1812-77) was a playwright, critic and gifted translator. His two-volume translation of the autobiography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) first appeared in 1848-9. Among the greatest literary figures of his day, Goethe recounts here the sorrows, passions and achievements of his life.