“Eckermann”, Goethe admitted ... Nietzsche called it “the best German book there is”. In Allan Bunden’s new translation — the first for 150 years — we see Eckermann’s dependence ...

Goethe: His Faustian Life ... story that intrigued young and old alike. Johann Spies, a German printer, published several Faust books. Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life ...

For example, in Book Four of The Work of J.W. von Goethe ... through his work. Goethe was the German poet who, perhaps more than any other, tried to understand human fate without judgment ...

Goethe was a member of the German "Sturm und Drang" literary movement ... still very popular in East Asia today. Scene from the book: Werther reads to his great loveImage: akg-images/picture ...

Goethe contained many people and Wilson’s book contains a dozen others, including a treatise on suicide, a life of the playwright Friedrich Schiller (Goethe’s best friend), introductions to ...

The author of over 60 books has just finished a draft ... Communality befits the renowned scholar in German literature, who won the Goethe Gold Medal from the Weimar Goethe Society.

.MARSHALL, Minn. (AP) – Professor Lloyd White, who teaches German at Southwest Minnesota State University, has donated his vast collection of German Braille books to the Library of Congress. White’s ...

Not so AN Wilson. He approaches Goethe with an almost Goethean fervour. His book is a double biography, since it is as much concerned with the conception, development and difficult birth of the drama ...