Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) is one of the towering figures of world culture, a universal man whose extraordinary talents found expression in literature, drama, autobiography, politics and the sciences. Edited and introduced by Nicholas Boyle, author of the definitive biography of Goethe, the Everyman's Library edition shows that Goethe remains one of the most intriguing and readable of European writers. Goethe established an international literary reputation overnight with The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), a story of disappointed love and pathological sensibility which mounted a powerful challenge to the rationalism of the Enlightenment.

A key work in the German 'Sturm und Drang' movement, Johann Goethe's autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is a defining moment in early Romanticism, which has influenced writers from Mary Shelley to Thomas Mann. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from with an introduction by Michael Hulse. Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Charlotte. Although he realises that she is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion and his infatuation torments him to the point of despair. The first great 'confessional' novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther draws both on Goethe's own unrequited love for Charlotte Buff and on the death of his friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem. The book was an immediate success, and a cult rapidly grew up around it, resulting in numerous imitations as well as violent criticism and suppression on the grounds of its apparent support of suicide. Goethe's sensitive exploration of the mind of an artist at odds with society and ill-equipped to cope with life is now considered the first great tragic novel of European literature. This edition includes notes and an introduction by Michael Hulse, who explores the origins of the novel in the author's life and examines its impact on European culture. Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Although he directed the German State Theatre, dabbled in the occult and worked on scientific theories in evolutionary botany, Goethe is best remembered for his great works The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust, and his part in the 18th century 'Sturm and Drang' movement.

Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the emotional journey of a young man who, during a stay in a picturesque German village, falls in love with Lotte, a local woman engaged to another man. As he realizes that his passion is doomed to failure and constant pain, Werther contemplates taking the most drastic measures. Partly autobiographical, and the prototype for many later Romantic works in its depiction of the sensitive, tortured hero, Goethe’s seminal classic is a timeless masterpiece of world literature.

Read Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination. Mann's novel, written some 150 years after Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, follows Lotte Kestner, Goethe's real-life heroine, as she makes a pilgrimage to Weimar to meet the author who courted her forty years before. To her surprise, Lotte is greeted on her arrival as a celebrity and immediately taken up into Goethe's set. Time and place are brilliantly evoked in Mann's novel, but its genius lies in his masterful portrayal of Goethe himself, and of the astonishing influence he exerted on his contemporaries.

Goethes "Werther" ist neben dem "Faust" das beruhmteste Werk des groften Weimarer Klassikers und nicht umsonst einer der meistgelesenen Romane der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Von unvergleichlicher Schonheit und Melancholie ist die Dreiecksgeschichte um Werther, Lotte und Albert. Eine ergreifende Erzahlung von Liebe, Jugend und Schmerz.

Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст известного сентиментального романа Гете "Страдания юного Вертера" (1774). Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами немецкого языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.

Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Учись немецкому у Иоганна Вольфганга Гете! Неадаптированное издание на немецком языке.

Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual, his struggle against the nihilism of his diabolical companion Mephistopheles. Part One presents Faust's pact with the Devil and the harrowing tragedy of his love affair with the young Gretchen. Part Two shows Faust's experience in the world of public affairs, including his encounter with Helen of Troy, the emblem of classical beauty and culture. The whole is a symbolic and panoramic commentary on the human condition and on modern European history and civilisation. This new translation of both parts of Faust preserves the poetic character of the original, its tragic pathos and hilarious comedy. In addition, John Williams has translated the Urfaust, a fascinating glimpse into the young Goethe's imagination, and a selection from the draft scenarios for the Walpurgis Night witches' sabbath - material so ribald and blasphemous that Goethe did not dare publish it.

Иоганн Вольфганг фон Гёте является одним из самых значимых фигур в немецкой литературе. "Эгмонт" - это пьеса, повествующая о событиях, предшествовавших революции в Нидерландах. На первый план вынесена любовь молодой девушки Клерхен и графа Эгмонта, который, заботясь о народе, навлекает на себя гнев наместника короля. Смогут ли возлюбленные преодолеть все невзгоды, или будут повержены? Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Иоганн Вольфганг Гёте - легендарный немецкий поэт, мыслитель и философ XVIII века, чьи произведения продолжают покорять читателей по всему миру. Трагедия "Фауст" - самое знаменитое произведение Гёте, над которым он работал на протяжении 60 лет, признанный шедевр немецкой литературы. "Фауст" - это калейдоскоп мистических ассоциаций, загадок, душевных терзаний, в основе которых пари Мефистофеля и Господа: сможет ли Фауст спасти свою душу? Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Unser grobtes Gedicht, Goethes Faust, hat zum Helden den Menschen an der Grenzscheide von Mittelalter und Humanismus, den Gottesmenschen, der sich aus vermessenem Erkenntnistriebe der Magie, dem Teufel ergibt. Wo der Hochmut des Intellektes sich mit seelischer Altertumlichkeit und Gebundenheit gattet, da ist der Teufel...

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War ein deutscher Maler, der durch grobe Wand- und Deckengemalde mit geschichtlichem Inhalt und llteraturillustrationen bekannt wurde. 1839/40 Beafturagte ihn der Stuttgarter verleger Georg von Cotta Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Reinecke Fuchs zu illustrieren. Angeregt von William Hogarth und Grandville schuf Kaulbach bis 1847 36 Hauptbilder und zahlreiche Vignetten, die von Hans Rudolf Rahn und Adrian Schleich gestochen wurden. Die verbluffend vermenschlichte animierung der Tierwelt zeigte Kaulbachs zweite kunstlerische Seite, einen Humor, der ihn uber seine Beruhmtheit als Historienmaler hinaus popular machte. In den 1850er Jahren begannen die Arbeiten an den erneut sehr popularen Illustrationen zur "Goethe-Galerie" des Verlecers Friedrich Bruckmann. Vor dem Jahr 1878 wurde in Berlin-Lankwitz eine Strabe nach ihm benannt.

Seit langem schon sucht Faust vergeblich zu ergrunden, 'was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhalt'. Doch nur ein Pakt mit dem Teufel kann ihm helfen, seinen Wissensdurst zu stillen und das schone Gretchen zu verfuhren. Dabei kommt er an den gro?en Fragen der Menschheit, der Wahrheit, der Liebe und der Verantwortung vor sich selbst, nicht vorbei. Bis heute besticht 'Der Faust' durch seine fulminante Kraft und Tiefe und seinen Reichtum an Bezugen. Zu Recht gilt die Tragodie als das bedeutendste Werk der deutschen Literatur.

Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their existence is thrown into chaos when two visitors - Eduard's friend the Captain and Charlotte's passionate young ward Ottilie - provoke unexpected attraction and forbidden love. Taking its title from the principle of elective affinities - the theory that certain chemicals are naturally drawn to one another - this is a penetrating study of marriage and adultery. Inspired by Goethe's own conflicting loyalties as he battled to maintain his relationship with his wife and control his feelings for a younger woman, Elective Affinities is one of the greatest works of the romance era: a rich exploration of love, conflict, and the inescapable force of fate.

Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his friend the Captain and she invites her niece Ottilie to stay with them, their lives are turned inside out as both hosts begin to feel attracted to their guests. Using one of the chemistry theories of the time as a metaphor throughout the novel, Goethe juxtaposes social interactions with scientific principles, while illustrating the typically Romantic concern of the individual coming to terms with society. Controversial when first published and still much critically debated today, Goethe’s Elective Affinities is an early model for the modern novel.