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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Vol 1 of 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Goethe, in one of his letters written in response to a communication from a sentimental young conntess, who wrote him anonymously regarding his " Werther," gives a contrasting picture of himself in two phases. The one is a carnival Goethe, in a laced coat and other consistent finery, illuminated by the unmeaning magnificence of sconces and chand... more »elier, amidst all kinds of people, kept at the card-table by a pair of beautiful eyes, and in varying dissipation driven from party to concert and from concert to ball, and with all the fascination of frivolity paying court to a pretty Blondine : a sentimental Goethe, with affectedly gloomy deep feelings. The other is a wholesome German Goethe, in a gray beaver coat and boots, with brown silk cravat, eagerly detecting the breath of spring in the cool February air, and waiting for his dear wide world to open out once more. This Goethe, ever living, striving, and working in himself, seeks to express, according to his powers, sometimes the innoce
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction vii; To the Reader xv; Translator's Preface xix; Book 1 1; Book II 89; Book III 175; Book IV 249
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