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A Very German Christmas - The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All Time by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Heinrich Heine; Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Classics | Series: Very Christmas Ser.
The fifth volume in our popular Very Christmas series, this collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland and Germany. You'll find classic works by the Brothers Grimm, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann ...Show more
Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Category: Classics
Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their existence is thrown into chaos when two visitors Eduard's friend the Captain and Charlotte's passionate young ward Ottilie provoke unexpected attraction and forbidden love. Taking ...Show more
Faust by JOHANN GOETHE
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual, his ...Show more
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Category: Classics
This edition includes both part I and II of the drama. It represents a significant departure from its predecessor in terms of supporting apparatus and the "Interpretative Notes" have been expanded. "Contexts" includes five new selections by Goethe on the composition of the novel. "Criticism" includes co ...Show more
Faust - A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Robert David MacDonald (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Trans. by Robert David Macdonald Ser.
The power and magic of the Faust story, the man who, in a pact with the Devil, trades his soul in return for a period of total knowledge and absolute power, is one of the most potent of all European myths. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) worked on this poetic drama in burst from his twenties unti ...Show more
Faust - A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Martin H. Greenberg; Martin Greenberg (Translator); W. Daniel Wilson (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
"Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat. He has taken a great German work, until now all but inaccessible to English readers, and made it into a sparkling English poem, full of verve and wit. Greenberg's translation lives; it is done in a modern idiom but with respect for the original te ...Show more
Faust (Part 2) by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Read by); David Constantine (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator); A. S. Byatt (Preface by)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Faust Ser.
Der 1749 in Frankfurt am Main geborene Johann Wolfgang von Goethe gilt als bedeutendster deutscher Dichter. Seine Werke gehören zu den wichtigsten der Weltliteratur."Faust" ist ein Meisterwerk. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Pakt mit dem Teufel. Der zentrale Konflikt rankt sich um die Frage nach der Wahrheit ...Show more
Faust, Part I by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Goethe
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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 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 ...Show more
Faust Parts 1 & 2 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Hailed as Germany's greatest contribution to world literature, Goethe's Faust drew upon a folktale and Marlowe's Dr. Faustus for inspiration. But in this epic version, Faust sells his soul not for magic powers but for a heightened sense of existence. Part One covers his pact with Mephistopheles and sedu ...Show more
Italian Journey 1786-1788 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
Maxims and Reflections by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Category: Classics
Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ...Goethe was probably the last true 'Renaissance Man'. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at ...Show more