Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elective Affinities, also translated under the title Kindred by Choice, is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1809. The title is taken from a scientific term once used to describe the tendency of chemical species to combine with certain substances or species in preference to others. The novel …

Faust je dráma od Johanna Wolfganga Goetheho. Môžeme rozlíšiť niekoľko štádií vzniku tejto drámy: tzv. Faust v prvotnej podobe, teda scény, ktoré mal Goethe napísané okolo r. 1775 Prafaust, Faust I bol vydaný v roku 1808 a Faust II, ktorý vyšiel až po Goetheho smrti. Goethe dokončil druhú časť tohto veľdiela rok pred …

The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774; revised 1787) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a short, mostly epistolary work of elevated emotion of the German Sturm und Drung period that later evolves into Romanticism. Honorable and sensitive young Werther literally perishes from a love that can never be, a love for a married …