Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants
Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1995-11-05

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780691043456

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Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and reveal his experimentation with narrative and perspective. A traditional cycle of novellas, Conversations of German Refugees deals with the impact and significance of the French Revolution and suggests Goethe's ideas on the social function of his art. Goethe's last novel, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, is a sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and to Conversations of German Refugees and is considered to be his most remarkable novel in form.

Essays on Art and Literature
Essays on Art and Literature

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1994-07-25

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780691036571

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Part of an exhaustive series which provides English translations of a representative proportion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work, this volume contains such essays as "On Gothic Architecture", "On the Laocoon" and "Shakespeare: a Tribute."

The Essential Goethe
The Essential Goethe

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-12

Total Pages: 1051

ISBN-13: 0691181047

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First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.

The German Refugees
The German Refugees

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Dedalus European Classics

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781903517444

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"A new translation by an award winning translator rescues Goethe's collection of stories, modelled on the Decameron, from being out of print in English." "A family of German nobles have been forced from their home on the left bank of the Rhine by the French Revolution. Their peace is further disrupted by the arguments between the young Karl, a supporter of the ideals of the revolution, and the other men. The Baroness saves the family situation by suggesting they amuse each other by telling stories." "There are seven in all: two short ghost stories, two amorous anecdotes and two more substantial moral tales, the whole being concluded with Goethe's richly worked, fantastic, symbolic, allegorical 'Fairy Tale'." "The German Refugees was first published in 1795."--BOOK JACKET.