Goethe: Life as a Work of Art Hardcover - 2017 - 1st Edition

Liveright, USA, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/Very Good. Hardcover. 651 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Liveright, USA, 2017. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good (ex-library) condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Text and spine/cover marked with Library stamps, in all other respects in very good condition throughout. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Translated by David Dollenmayer. SYNOPSIS: The work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has reverberated through two and a half centuries, altering the course of literature in ways both grand and intimate. No other writer so completely captivated the intellectual life of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe, putting into language the anxieties and ambitions of a civilization on the cusp of modernity. A literary celebrity by the age of twenty-five, Goethe, who was born in Frankfurt in 1749, attracted the adulation and respect of the greatest scientists, politicians, composers, and philosophers of his day. Schoolboys dressed like his fictional characters. Napoleon read his first novel obsessively. He was an astoundingly prolific writer, a master of many genres, from poetry to scientific treatises, from novels like the tragic Sorrows of Young Werther to dramatic works like Faust. Indeed, Goethe's unparalleled literary output would come to define the Romantic age. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780871404909. Inventory No: 24030073.. 9780871404909