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Maxims and Reflections

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Series: Penguin Classics

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Reveals some of the author's deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, and his reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work.

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Reveals some of the author's deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, and his reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work.

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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 programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true 'Renaissance Man'.Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar's court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics - and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man. They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers.

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)Trans. Elisabeth Stopp, Edited With An Introduction And Notes By Peter Hutchinson

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd | Penguin Classics
Published
27th August 1998
Edition
1st
Pages
208
ISBN
9780140447200

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