Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fiction, Literary, Classics - Softcover

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603120602 ISBN 13: 9781603120609

Publisher: Aegypan, 2007

Synopsis

Since the year 1795, when it first appeared at Berlin, numerous editions of Meister have been printed: critics of all ranks, and some of them dissenting widely from its doctrines, have loaded it with encomiums; its songs and poems are familiar to every German ear; the people read it, and speak of it, with an admiration approaching in many cases to enthusiasm. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape what he views as the empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theater, Wilhelm commits himself to the mysterious Tower Society.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid 1700's who strives to break free from the restrictive world of economics and seeks fulfillment as an actor and playwright. Along with Eric Blackall's fresh translation of the work, this edition contains notes and an afterword by the translator that aims to put this novel into historical artistic perspective for twentieth-century readers while showing how it defies categorization.

About the Author:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of meters and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy and color; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aegypan
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1603120602
• ISBN 13: 9781603120609
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512