The original tale of moral destruction, in a brand-new translation: Faust is a man torn between the urges of the living world and the significance of moral living. He feels nothing, he lives for nothing, and thus engages in a wager with Mephistopheles, the devil himself. Goethe's master work shares the deep complexity of a human life, rife with pain, mistakes and dynamic complexity. With Faust, the lushly lyrical and philosophically brilliant drama...

Best known today as the author of Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) first exploded into the public consciousness with The Sorrows of Young Werther when he was twenty-four. He was already a respected poet by then; and in addition to these forms, he wrote travelogues, autobiographical sketches, essays, letters, and proverbs in rhyme and prose. This collection offers outstanding examples of each genre from the great German writer's prolific...

The Golden Goblet traces Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poetry from the idealism of youth to the liberation of maturity. In contrast to his rococo contemporaries, Goethe's poetry draws on the graceful simplicity of German folk rhythms to develop complex, transcendent themes. This robust selection, artfully translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner, explores transformation, revolution, and illumination in Goethe's lush lyrical style that...

Faust: A Tragedy (German: Faust. Eine Tragödie), or retrospectively Faust. Der Tragödie / erster Teil) is the first part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German literature. It was first published in 1808. The first part of Faust is not divided into acts, but is structured as a sequence of scenes in a variety of settings. After a dedicatory poem and a prelude in the theater,...

Loosely based on Goethe's personal experiences, the novel is written mostly in the form of letters in which Werther recounts his unrequited love for a married woman. Its Sturm und Drang style, portraying the rebellion of youthful genius against conventional standards, makes it a perennial favorite with readers of every era.

Um dos primeiros livros de Goethe, provavelmente de caráter autobiográfico, este romance caracteriza-se por seu teor epistolar, pois se trata da reprodução de cartas que o Jovem Werther teria escrito ao narrador por muito tempo. A obra, narrada na primeira pessoa, com economia de personagens, tem em suas notas de rodapé a indicação de que nomes e locais foram substituídos por dados fictícios, o que contribui para que se acredite na transposição...

Extrait: "Ah! philosophie, jurisprudence et médecine pour mon malheur! théologie aussi, j'ai tout approfondi avec une ardeur laborieuse; et maintenant me voici là, pauvre fou! aussi sage qu'auparavant. Je m'intitule, il est vrai, maître, docteur, et, depuis dix ans, deçà, delà, en long, en large, je traîne mes élèves par le nez."