Goethe

Author: Editor-in-Chief Gao Zhongfu
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Publishing Date: 1996-10-01
Features: Goethe is a long-lived figure in world literature, having lived 82 years. In his later years, in a conversation with Eckermann, he divided his life into early, middle, and late stages. Although every long-lived person has their youth, adulthood, and old age, Goethe considered his life "a unique fortune," as he himself said. This was not only because he experienced a series of world-shaking events: the Seven Years' War, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the entire Napoleonic era until Napoleon's downfall, and the June Revolution of 1830. Like Faust in his works, Goethe pursued his goals tirelessly throughout his life; the achievements he created for later generations and the spiritual wealth he left behind will endure for ages. This book includes his works such as poems: Joy and Parting, Songs of May, Wild Rose, King of Thule, Ganymede, Prometheus, New Love, New Life, On the Lake, Fate, Why Do You Grant Us Insight, An Unrestful Love, To the Moon, Winter Wanderings in the Harz Mountains, Remembrance, The Song of the Quafu, The Fisherman, Song of the Water Spirit, Night Song of the Wanderer, The Demon King, Who Has Not Eaten His Bread with Tears, Divinity, Song of the Muses, Elegy from Rome (Excerpt), The Silence of the Sea, A Lucky Voyage, Nature and Art, Permanence Amidst Change, The Treasure Hunter, The Unmarried Bride of Corinth, God and the Dancer, The Magician's Disciple, Great Wonder, A Joyful Meeting, The Maiden Says, Farewell, Reminder, Discovery, The Yearning for Luck, The Ginkgo, Let You Hide in a Thousand Forms, Reconciliation, The Requiem of Dülmen, The Twilight Slowly Descends, Last Will and Testament. Novels: The Sorrows of Young Werther (Excerpt), Affinities (Excerpt), The Apprenticeship Years of William Meister (Excerpt), The Wanderings Years of William Meister (Excerpt), The Singing Nun Antonella, A Pair of Strangely Mysterious Neighbors, Novelle. Plays: G?tz von Berlichingen, the Iron Knight (Excerpt), Egmont (Excerpt), Iphigenia in Tauris (Excerpt), Torquato Tasso (Excerpt), Faust (Excerpt). The book also includes a chronology of Goethe's life and creative timeline.