Goethe Collected Works: Volumes 1~10

Author: Goethe
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Publish Date: 1999-07-01
Features: Goethe was a great German poet, dramatist, and novelist, a major representative of German classical literature and national literature. Goethe was not only a genius as a poet and thinker but also a notable scholar in natural sciences. He studied architecture, mineralogy, anatomy, morphology and colorology, optics, and wrote many scientific papers. It is particularly noteworthy that in March 1784, he discovered the human sphenoid bone. Goethe was the last Renaissance-style great figure. The editing methods of The Collected Works of Goethe have varied over time, with some arranged by genre, others by publication date, and others by importance. The Chinese translation of The Collected Works of Goethe we publish, except for the tenth volume selected and compiled by the translator as critical essays, consists of the author's main literary works—dramas, novels, plays, and poems. The arrangement follows both the position of each work in Goethe's entire oeuvre and its genre: for example, Goethe's most important work is Faust, which is placed in Volume, second only to this is Wilhelm Meister, which is placed in the second and third volumes, followed in order by Poetry and Truth, selected novels, selected plays, selected poems, and so on.