Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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born
August 28, 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

died
March 22, 1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science. Goethe's magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Goethe was one of the key figures of German literature and the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; this movement coincides with Enlightenment, Sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Dra...more


Average rating: 3.75 · 34,351 ratings · 1,391 reviews · 608 distinct works
Faust
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 16,050 ratings — published 1808 — 397 editions
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Faust: Part One
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Elective Affinities
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Faust: Part Two
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 692 ratings — published 1832 — 45 editions
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Iphigenie auf Tauris
3.07 of 5 stars 3.07 avg rating — 539 ratings — published 1787 — 66 editions
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The Collected Works, Vol. 9...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 1795 — 51 editions
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Selected Poetry
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1954 — 11 editions
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Italian Journey
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 1817 — 48 editions
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More books by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe…
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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