Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright, and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Offering fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all Goethe’s major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities , plays such as Egmont and Iphigenia in Tauris , and Goethe’s greatest work, Faust , Jeremy Adler also provides many original readings of Goethe’s poetry, beginning with the poems written in his early youth. Alongs