Johann W. von Goethe

Johann Tischbein: Portrait of Goethe in the Campagna, 1787 Rom, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, © Wikimedia Commons
Johann Tischbein: Portrait of Goethe in the Campagna, 1787 Rom, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, © Wikimedia Commons
Encyclopaedia entries for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read as follows: “German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist, considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era.” His collected works are published in forty volumes (The Frankfurt Edition). Here a selection of important titles available in English translation (compiled March 2008).

The Cambridge Companion to Goethe / edited. by Lesley Sharpe . - Cambridge :
Cambridge University, 2002. - 294 pages
ISBN 978-0521665605

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Faust Part One / translated by David Luke. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - 240 pages
ISBN 978-0-19-9536214
Original title: Faust . Erster Teil (German)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Faust Part Two / translated by David Luke. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - 400 pages
ISBN 978-0199536207
Original title: Faust . Zweiter Teil (German)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Dramatic Works: Faust / Iphigenia of Taurus / Torquato Tasso / Egmont; Goetz von Berlichingen. - Whitefish : Kessinger Publishing, 2007. – 602 pages
ISBN 978-0549036334

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
The Sorrows of Young Werther / translated by Michael Hulse. - London : Penguin Books, 1989. - 144 pages
ISBN 0-1404450-3X
Original title: Die Leiden des jungen Werther (German)

Goethe. Johann Wolfgang von
Elective Affinities / translated. by David J. Constantine – Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999. - 272 pages
ISBN 978-0192837769
Original title: Wahlverwandtschaften (German)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship / translated by Eric A. Blackall - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1995. - 396 pages (Collected Works; 9)
ISBN 978-0691043449
Original title: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (German)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Coversations of German Refugees / Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years / tanslated by Jan van Heurck. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1997. - 448 pages (Collected Works;10)
ISBN 978-0691043456
Original title: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre; Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten (German)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Selected Poetry - London : Penguin, 2005. - 336 pages
ISBN 978-0140424560

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
103 Great Poems / Dual-Language Book. - Mineola : Dover Publications, 1999. - 272 pages
ISBN 978-0486406671

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Italian Journey, 1786 - 1788 / translated by W.H Auden - London : Penguin, 1982. - 512 pages
ISBN 978-0140442335
Original title: Italienische Reise (German)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Essays on Art and Literature / translated by Ellen von Nadroff. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1994. - 280 pages (Collected Works ; 3)
ISBN 978-0691036571

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Maxims and Reflections / translated by Elisabeth Stopp . – London : Penguin, 1998. - 208 pages
ISBN 978-0140447200
Original title: Maxinen und Reflexionen (German)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Theory of Colours / translated by Charles L. Eastlake Mineola : Dover Publications, 2006. – 288 pages
ISBN 978-0486448053
Original title: Zur Farbenlehre (German)

Goethe on Science: An Anthology of Goethe's Scientific Writing / edited by Jeremy Nyadler -.Edinburgh : Floris Books, 1996. - 141 pages
ISBN 978-0863152375

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