Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2) Egmont
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In "Egmont", Goethe relates the fight of Count Egmont (1522-1568) against the despotic Duke of Alba. Egmont is a famous Dutch warrior and the Duke of Alba represents the Spanish invader. Though under threat of arrest, Egmont refuses to run away and give up his ideal of liberty. Imprisoned and abandoned because of the cowardice of his people, and despite the desperate efforts of his mistress Klaerchen, he is sentenced to death. Thus, faced with her...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on 28th August 1749 in Frankfurt, All of his siblings died at a young age except for his sister Cornelia and he was home schooled by his father and a range of tutors. He went to Leipzig to study law but preferred writing poetry. However, from these relatively unremarkable beginnings blossomed a remarkable life. Goethe became the most important cultural icon of his time. Whilst his influence is most closely seen...
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Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend who makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge. The meaning of the word and name has been reinterpreted through the ages. "Faust" has taken on a connotation distinct from its original use, and is often used today to describe a person whose headstrong desire for self-fulfillment leads him or her in a diabolical direction.
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German writer Johann Goethe's novella "Elective Affinities" is a singular book which attracts both creative minds and pragmatic minds. Romantics at heart will be drawn to the convoluted love affair; married couple Eduard and Charlotte invite two close friends to live with them on their idyllic estate for a short time. The innocent invitation takes an unexpected turn though, as each of the spouses become attracted to their guests. Eduard falls in love...
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Con frac azul y chaleco amarillo, muchos jóvenes en el reino de Prusia (actual Alemania), paseaban por las calles imitando la vestimenta del personaje en el libro sensación de la época, Las penas del joven Werther. Asimismo, la exaltación de las emociones y la trágica culminación, hacía que el suicidio fuera un fenómeno social sin precedentes... y todo por amor. Un libro que sirve de catarsis al mismo Goethe, autor de este libro, en donde...
7) Novelle
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Aus einem Zirkus entlaufen zwei Raubtiere - ein Tiger und ein Löwe. Als eine Fürstin von dem Tiger angegriffen wird, wird dieser von einem Begleiter erschossen. Die Schaustellerfamilie fürchtet nun um das Leben des Löwen. Tatsächlich gelingt es dem Sohn der Familie, den Löwen aus seinem Versteck zu locken und ihn damit vor dem gewaltsamen Tod zu bewahren. Parabelhaft birgt diese Geschichte die Erkenntnis, dass der Mächtige durch Kunst und Liebe...
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Best known today as the author of Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) first exploded into the public consciousness with The Sorrows of Young Werther when he was twenty-four. He was already a respected poet by then; and in addition to these forms, he wrote travelogues, autobiographical sketches, essays, letters, and proverbs in rhyme and prose. This collection offers outstanding examples of each genre from the great German writer's prolific...
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El protagonista de la novela, Werther, es un joven de carácter sensible y pasional que se enamora locamente de Charlotte, una mujer que se halla comprometida a otro hombre. Werther es un hombre apuesto que suscita el interés de muchas otras mujeres, pero él está enamorado de Charlotte, quien no lo ama, y a pesar del intenso dolor que le causa el amor no correspondido, Werther desarrolla una amistad íntima con ella e incluso posteriormente, con...
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The Golden Goblet traces Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poetry from the idealism of youth to the liberation of maturity. In contrast to his rococo contemporaries, Goethe's poetry draws on the graceful simplicity of German folk rhythms to develop complex, transcendent themes. This robust selection, artfully translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner, explores transformation, revolution, and illumination in Goethe's lush lyrical style that...
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The original tale of moral destruction, in a brand-new translation: Faust is a man torn between the urges of the living world and the significance of moral living. He feels nothing, he lives for nothing, and thus engages in a wager with Mephistopheles, the devil himself. Goethe's master work shares the deep complexity of a human life, rife with pain, mistakes and dynamic complexity.
With Faust, the lushly lyrical and philosophically brilliant drama...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was one of the greatest artists of the German Romantic period. He was a poet, playwright, novelist, and natural philosopher. David E. Wellbery is the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.
One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work....
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Wilhelm goes through deep self-realisation and decides to escape his empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theatre, Wilhelm commits himself to the mysterious Tower Society. A coming-of-age tale, a story of education and disillusionment, a novel of ideas ranging across literature, philosophy and politics, a masterpiece that resists all pigeonholing.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, con su excepcional habilidad para retratar de manera precisa los movimientos más sutiles y complejos del alma, es indiscutiblemente uno de los grandes nombres de la literatura mundial y el principal escritor en lengua alemana. En "Los años de aprendizaje de Guillermo Meister", Goethe narra la trayectoria del joven Wilhelm Meister, hijo de una pareja de la burguesía alemana. Contrariando las expectativas de la familia,...
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Exceptionally fine poetry by Germany's greatest literary figure spans a wide range of styles, forms and moods, offering a rich selection of the poet's verse - from his earliest, "An den Schlaf" ("To Sleep"), written when he was 18, to his last great poem, "Verdächtnis" ("Legacy"), written when he was 80.
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By the time Goethe's "Theory of Colours" appeared in 1810, the wavelength theory of light and colour 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 based his conclusions exclusively upon exhaustive personal observation of the phenomena of colour....
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was one of the greatest writers of the German Romantic period. Matthew Bell is professor of German and comparative literature at King's College London. His books include Goethe's Naturalistic Anthropology and Melancholia: The Western Malady.
The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English
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Short excerpt: "Were, then, these Switzers free? Free, these opulent burghers in their little pent-up towns-free, those poor devils on their rocks and crags? What is it that man cannot be made to believe, especially when he cherishes in his heart the memory of some old tale of marvel? Once, forsooth, they did break a tyrant's yoke, and might for the moment fancy themselves free; but out of the carcase of the single oppressor the good sun, by a strange...
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Translated in the original metres" by Edgar Alfred Bowring. According to Wikipedia: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth."