Reading Goethe: A Critical Introduction to the Literary Work

by Martin Swales and Erika Swales

Book Overview

At last an engaging and highly readable guide to the works and significance of Goethe.

The year 1999 saw the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's greatest writer. Appropriately, literary scholars within Germany and beyond paid tribute to this remarkable talent. But a number of commentators also noted that Goethe is often revered rather than read, known of rather than known. This study remedies this state of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133585
• ISBN13: 9781571133588
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"