Delphi Collected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe \(Illustrated\) pdfdrive com

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The Works of

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

(1749-1832)

Contents

The Novels

THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER

WILHELM MEISTER’S APPRENTICESHIP

ELECTIVE AFFINITIES

WILHELM MEISTER’S JOURNEYMAN YEARS

The Short Stories

A TALE

THE GOOD WOMEN

The Plays

THE WAYWARD LOVER

THE FELLOW CULPRITS

GOETZ VON BERLICHINGEN

CLAVIGO

EGMONT

THE BROTHER AND SISTER

STELLA

IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS

TORQUATO TASSO

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FAUST: PART ONE

THE NATURAL DAUGHTER

FAUST: PART TWO

The Poetry

THE POEMS OF GOETHE

LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Non-Fiction

THEORY OF COLOURS

MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS

The Criticism

GOETHE – THE WRITER by Ralph Waldo Emerson

GOETHE by C. E. Vaughan

GOETHE by John Cowper Powys

GOETHE’S FAUST by George Santayana

SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE by David Masson

GOETHE’S THEORY OF COLORS by John Tyndall

EXTRACTS OF CORRESPONDENCE by Sir Walter Scott

The Autobiography

TRUTH AND FICTION RELATING TO MY LIFE

The Biography

THE LIFE OF GOETHE by Calvin Thomas

© Delphi Classics 2013

Version 1

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The Works of

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

By Delphi Classics, 2013

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The Novels

Goethe’s birthplace, Frankfurt

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Goethe’s birthplace today

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Goethe’s parents

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THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER

Translated by R.D. Boylan

Published in 1774 when only twenty-five years old, Goethe’s first novel is an

epistolary  and  loosely  autobiographical  work,  which  he  revised  in  1787.  It  is

now recognised as an important novel of the Sturm und Drang period in German

literature,  which  greatly  influenced  the  later  Romantic  literary  movement.  The

“Storm  and  Stress”  period  was  a  proto-Romantic  movement  taking  place  from

the  late  1760s  to  the  early  1780s,  in  which  individual  subjectivity  and  extreme

emotions  were  given  free  expression  in  reaction  to  the  perceived  constraints  of

rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment. The novel made the young Goethe

one of the true first international literary celebrities.

The Sorrows of Young Werther is depicted as a collection of letters written by

a young artist of highly sensitive and passionate temperament, sent to his friend

Wilhelm.  In  the  letters,  Werther  gives  an  intimate  account  of  his  stay  in  the

fictional village of Wahlheim, which is in fact based on the town of Garbenheim,

near Wetzlar. Werther is enchanted by the simple ways of the peasants there and

the  artist  meets  Charlotte,  a  beautiful  young  girl  who  is  taking  care  of  her

siblings  following  the  death  of  their  mother.  Despite  knowing  beforehand  that

Charlotte  is  already  engaged  to  Albert,  eleven  years  her  senior,  Werther  falls

desperately in love with her.

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Goethe, close to the time of his first novel’s publication

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

BOOK I

BOOK II.

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The first edition

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Garbenheim, Wetzlar–the town that inspired the setting of the novel

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PREFACE

I  have  carefully  collected  whatever  I  have  been  able  to  learn  of  the  story  of

poor Werther, and here present it to you, knowing that you will thank me for it.

To  his  spirit  and  character  you  cannot  refuse  your  admiration  and  love:  to  his

fate you will not deny your tears.

And thou, good soul, who sufferest the same distress as he endured once, draw

comfort  from  his  sorrows;  and  let  this  little  book  be  thy  friend,  if,  owing  to

fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

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