BOOKS by Johann Wolfgang, von Goethe

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1	Faust more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 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; over a period of 60 years he produced one of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Goethe's Faust more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Walter Kaufmann (Translator) Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, "Faust" has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Sorrows of Young Werther more books like this by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The first great "confessional" novel, this is a story of unrequited love, drawing on personal experience. Werther, a sensitive young man, falls in love with Lotte, knowing she is to marry another. Unable to subdue his passion, Werther's infatuation torments him to the point of despair. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| SVS
4	Faust more books like this by J Goethe Premiered at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum theatre, this translation presents both parts of Goethe's lifelong masterpiece. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Sorrows of Young Werther more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe "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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.74! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Elective Affinities more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocrats with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie and the Captain into their lives - against morality, good sense and conscious volition all four are drawn into relationships as inexorably as if they were substances in a chemical equation. The ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Romantic Fairy Tales more books like this by Various, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Carol Lisa Tully (Translator) The four works collected in this volume reveal the fascinating preoccupations of the German Romantic movement, which revelled in the inexplicable, the uncanny and the unknown and, especially, the mysterious world of the fairy tale. Goethe's richly imaginative "Fairy Tale" (1795) depicts an ethereal underground realm and the marriage of a beautiful ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $7.00!
8	Goethe, Volume 2: Faust I & II more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Stuart Atkins (Editor) Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over 60 years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development. Faust is made available to the English reader in a completely new translation that communicates both its poetic variety and its many levels of tone. The ... see all copies from $7.75! new only from $14.95! \| first editions
9	Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David Constantine (Translator), A S Byatt (Preface by) 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 the devil, 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 bid the moment stay, he falls to ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $5.50!
10	Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship more books like this by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This new series brings into modern English a reliable translation of a representative portion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work. This edition, selected from over 140 volumes in German, is the new standard in English and contains poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, criticism, and scientific writing by the man who is probably the most ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $24.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Faust, Part One (Incl. PT. 2, ACT 5) more books like this by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, B Q Morgan (Translator) The legend of the Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. John Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adapted the story of the wandering conjurer who accepts Mephistophele's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greater knowledge; over a period of 60 years he produced one of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
12 view cover	Faust: 7part 1 more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Philip Wayne (Translator) A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of "Faust" is included with Goethe's classic tale about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.47! \| SVS
13 view cover	Faust Part Two more books like this by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (Translator) Loosely connected with Part One and the German legend of Faust, Part Two is a dramatic epic rather than a strictly constructed drama. It is conceived as an act of homage to classical Greek culture and inspired above all by the world of story-telling and myth at the heart of the Greek tradition, as well as owing some of its material to the Arabian ... see all copies from $3.67! new only from $6.97!
14 view cover	Sufferings of Young Werther more books like this by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Harry Steinhauer (Translator) "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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.39! \| first editions
15 view cover	Collected works. Vol.11, Sorrows of young Werther. Elective affinities. Novella more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Victor Lange, Judith Ryan, David E. Wellbery 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 ... see all copies from $4.22! new only from $16.95! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Theory of Colours more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe By the time Goethe's Theory of Colours appeared in 1810, the wavelength theory of light and color had been firmly established. To Goethe, the theory was the result of mistaking an incidental result for an elemental principle. Far from pretending to a knowledge of physics, he insisted that such knowledge was an actual hindrance to understanding. He ... see all copies from $12.98! new only from $22.05! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Faust: Part 2 more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Philip Wayne (Translator) 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, and asks Mephistopheles to reveal Helen of Troy ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.55! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Sorrows of Young Werther: And Selected Writings more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Catherine Hutter (Translator), Marcelle Clements (Introduction by) This classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the author's philosophy of love and death. This new, updated package includes a new Introduction. Reissue. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	Faust, Part Two more books like this by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Martin Harry Greenberg (Translator) Goethe's Faust, Part Two is distinguished by its extraordinary range of allusion, tone, and style. Full of variety of historical scene and poetic effect, the masterpiece is at times satirical, witty, and even broadly comic, at others grand and soaring. This sparkling new translation of Faust, Part Two now affords English-language readers much of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.06! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Italian Journey: 1786-1788 more books like this by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W H Auden (Translator), Elizabeth Mayer (Translator) 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 he wrote many letters, which he later used as ... see all copies from $6.05! new only from $8.00!
21 view cover	Goethe's Faust more books like this by Louis MacNeice, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Louis Macniece (Translator) Jarrell worked on this translation, expressed in several meters and blank verse, for the seven years preceding his death in 1965. Here, illustrations by the Czech artist Peter Sis accompany the text. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.64! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Goethe, Volume 9: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Eric A Blackall (Editor) Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free from the restrictive world of economics and seeks ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $19.89! \| SVS
23 view cover	Egmont more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German writer. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science. His Magnum Opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part dramatic poem Faust: A Tragedy. He was one of the key figures of German literature and the movement of Weimar ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.90! \| SVS
24 view cover	Die Leiden Des Jungen Werhers by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.44!
25 view cover	Faust Part 1 more books like this by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jarrell worked on this translation, expressed in several meters and blank verse, for the seven years preceding his death in 1965. Here, illustrations by the Czech artist Peter Sis accompany the text. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| SVS

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