Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von - Maxims And Reflections - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Maxims And Reflections
Author(s): Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780140447200
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/1/1999
Category: Literary Essays