This classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the author's philosophy of love and death.
“Nature has endowed [Goethe] more generously than anyone since Shakespeare.”—Friedrich Schiller “[In] Werther, all the richness of [Goethe’s] gift was apparent….The extreme, nerve-shattering sensitivity of the little book…evoked a storm of applause which went beyond all bounds and fairly intoxicated the world.”—Thomas Mann
This classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the author's philosophy of love and death.
Praise
“Nature has endowed [Goethe] more generously than anyone since Shakespeare.”—Friedrich Schiller “[In] Werther, all the richness of [Goethe’s] gift was apparent….The extreme, nerve-shattering sensitivity of the little book…evoked a storm of applause which went beyond all bounds and fairly intoxicated the world.”—Thomas Mann
