The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe\'s writings ever published in English The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe\'s writings ever published in English.
Includes: Selected poems Four complete dramas: Faust Part I, Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris , and Torquato Tasso The complete novel Wilhelm Meister\'s Apprenticeship A selection from the travel journal Italian Journey Selected essays on art and literature Selected essays on philosophy and science An extensive introduction to Goethe\'s life and works A chronology of Goethe\'s life and times A note on the texts and translations.
The volume also features an extensive introduction to Goethe\'s life and works by volume editor Matthew Bell.
Primarily drawn from Princeton\'s authoritative twelve-volume Goethe edition, the translations are highly readable and reliable modern versions by scholars of Goethe.
The volume also offers a selection of Goethe\'s essays on the arts, philosophy, and science, which give access to the thought of a polymath unrivalled in the modern world.
In addition to the works for which he is most famous, including Faust Part I and the lyric poems, the volume features important literary works that are rarely published in English--including the dramas Egmont , Iphigenia in Tauris , and Torquato Tasso and the bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister\'s Apprenticeship , a foundational work in the history of the novel.
Goethe\'s work as playwright, poet, novelist, and autobiographer is fully represented.
It provides English-language readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work by one of the greatest writers in world history.
The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe\'s writings ever published in English The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe\'s writings ever published in English
