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Goethe Books

Goethe books are mostly in German and few english translations are available

Goethe Quotes

Goethe Books on Science

1790: Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären (The Metamorphosis of Plants),

1810: Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours),

Goethe Autobiography

1811–1830: Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit (From my Life: Poetry and Truth) autobiographical work in 4 volumes

1817: Italienische Reise (Italian Journey), journals

1836 and 1848: Gespräche mit Goethe (Conversations with Goethe) also translated as: Conversations with Eckermann – posthumous

Goethe’s Non-Fiction

1793: Die Belagerung von Mainz, (The Siege of Mainz), non-fiction

July 1798-1801: Propyläen, periodical

1805: “Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert” (“Winckelmann and His Century”)

Goethe Books – Prose

1774: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther), novel

1794: Reineke Fuchs, fable

1794–95: Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten, novella, which also includes the fairy tale Das Märchen

1795: Das Märchen (The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily), fairy-tale

1796: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship), novel

1809: Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities), novel

1821: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, oder Die Entsagenden (Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years, or the Renunciants/Wilhelm Meister’s Travels), novel

1828: Novella, novella

Goethe Books – Poetry

1769 “Ohne Hast, ohne Rast” (“Haste not, Rest not”)

1771: “Heidenröslein” (“Heath Rosebud”),

1773: “Prometheus”,

1774: “Der König in Thule”,

1782: “Der Erlkönig” (“The Alder King”),

1790: Römische Elegien (Roman Elegies), collection

1795 “Ich Denke Dein” (“I Think of You”)

1795–96 (in collaboration with Friedrich Schiller): Die Xenien (The Xenia), collection of epigrams

1797: “Der Zauberlehrling” (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice), (which was later the basis of a symphonic poem by Paul Dukas, which in turn was animated by Disney in Fantasia)

1797: “Die Braut von Korinth”[1] (“The Bride of Corinth”),

1798: Hermann und Dorothea (Hermann and Dorothea), epic

1798: Die Weissagungen des Bakis (The Soothsayings of Bakis)

1799: ” The First Walpurgis Night”,

1813: “Gefunden” (“Found”),

1819: Westöstlicher Diwan, variously translated as The West-Eastern DivanThe Parliament of East and West, or otherwise; collection of poems in imitation of Sufi and other Sunni Muslim poetry, including that of Hafez.

1823: “Marienbad Elegy”,

Goethe Books – Closet Drama

1808: Faust Part One,

1832: Faust Part Two,

Goethe Books – Drama

1773: Götz von Berlichingen, drama

1775: Stella [de], tragedy in five acts

1787: Iphigenie auf Tauris (Iphigenia in Tauris), drama

1788: Egmont, drama

1790: Torquato Tasso, drama

1803: Die Natürliche Tochter (The Natural Daughter), play originally intended as the first part of a trilogy on the French revolution

Goethe’s Life

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