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Goethe: His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany,
** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR ** 'W ild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars. ' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph ' Exuberant...
Conversations with Goethe
A witty introduction to the mind of Goethe, a classic in a new translation for the first time in 150 years Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated...
Goethe: His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany,
** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR ** 'W ild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars. ' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph ' Exuberant...
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Penguin Classics relaunch. Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Though he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is...
The Wanderer's Song: Essential Poems
The cleft of a ginkgo leaf recalls a lover's divided self; Greek gods and Persian poets give voice to euphoria and lamentation; and the artist must battle fiercely to bring...
The Life of Goethe
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Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks: Condition:Fair. Jacket: N/A; buckram cloth worn and faded; mild bumping on corners and spine; some stains on boards. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging. Markings:...
Italian Journey 1786-1788
Goethe's famous account of his time and travels in Italy In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on...
Maxims and Reflections
First complete translation into English of 'Maximem und Reflexionen' Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre...
Selected Poetry
This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in Penguin Classics This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces...
Faust, Part One: A New Translation with Illustrations
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Faust, Part I
A major new translation by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine that captures the lyrical liveliness of Goethe's original. Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant...
Italian Journey: 1786-1788
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Slipcase: WornPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn slipcase with minor bruise.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Italian Journey chronicles his transformative two-year sojourn through Italy, a period...
Faust, Part I
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A major new translation by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine that captures the lyrical liveliness of Goethe's original. Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant...
Elective Affinities
R. J. Hollingdale's translation conveys the simple elegance of the original. Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the...
Faust: Pt.1
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Faust: Part Two
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand tradition of Western literature's most audacious bargains, Faust: Part Two picks up where the legendary...
Faust: A Tragedy In Two Parts with The Urfaust
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's 'Faust' is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for...
Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised
"Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat. He has taken a great German work, until now all but inaccessible to English readers, and made it into a sparkling English poem,...
Faust, Part II
A major new translation of Goethe's Faust, Part Two - one of the greatest dramatic-poetic works in all of German literature - by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine In...
Love, Life, Goethe: How to be Happy in an Imperfect World
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Faust, Part II
A major new translation of Goethe's Faust, Part Two - one of the greatest dramatic-poetic works in all of German literature - by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine In...
The Great Books: From "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" to Goethe's
Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales, Don Quixote: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. Anthony O'Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a- half...
German Romantic Poets
In this unique selection popular giants of the Romantic movement - Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, Heine - are joined by an array of poets who deserve a wider audience in English,...
The Genius Of The German Theater
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner. A landmark anthology of dramatic literature, The Genius...
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Schiller's famous treatise on art, politics and society 'The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time...
The World of Yesterday
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The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2
Volume 2 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought Arthur...
The Portable Nietzsche
A captivating collection of Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal works, from his provocative musings on truth and morality to his profound exploration of human existence "In this volume, one may very conveniently...
A Nietzsche Reader
R. J. Hollingdale's selection structures Nietzsche's writings according to theme to give the fullest possible sense of the depth and scope of this extraordinary writer. The literary career of Friedrich...
The Egotistical Sublime: A History Of Wordsworth's Imagination
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of biography and literary criticism stands The Egotistical Sublime, a landmark scholarly work that traces the inner...
The Confessions
Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is...
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
A passionately argued work on the philosophy of aesthetics No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects...
Romantic Affinities: Portraits from an Age, 1780-1830
The winner of a 1988 Somerset Maugham Award, this is a kaleidoscopic series of portraits from an era of tumultuous change in Europe as it was experienced and communicated by...
Gerhard Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama
What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne...
One-Way Street and Other Writings
Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri; translated by J.A. Underwood Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth...
Duino Elegies: The German Text, With An English Translation, Introduction And Commentary By J. B. Leishman And Stephen Spender
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Edition: 3rd., ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsDuino Elegies presents a monumental cycle of ten poems that grapple with profound existential questions concerning...
Physiognomy In The European Novel: Faces And Fortunes
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn but not faded - jacket still in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact, no loose pages noted. A landmark...
W. B. Yeats: Man And Poet
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in literary history occupy as singular a position as William Butler Yeats — a man whose...
The Poetics of Space
The beloved multidisciplinary classic on the spaces we inhabit and the dreams and memories that fill them A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Since its initial publication in...
Guests Of The Unspeakable
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Author: T. W. WhiteBinding: HardbackPublished: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1935Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: significant moulding of spine, on some inside pages; cloth cover worn...
A Journey to Rome with Dicken, Shelley, Ruskin, Goethe, Stendhal
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn Italian, However book is mainly comprised of beautiful watercolour works A richly evocative...
Crossing The Gap: A Novelist's Essays (SIGNED)
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA rich collection of literary and personal essays, Crossing the Gap presents the reflections of one of Australia's most...