Johann: 1160 books

A new translation by an award winning translator rescues this work from being out of print in English. Goethe�s collection of stories (1795) is modelled on the Decameron. A family of German nobles have been forced from their home on the left bank of the Rhine by the French Revolution. Their peace...

Tales from the German contens Texts from the most celebrated authors of this country in history: LIBUSSA (J. H. MUSÆUS), THE CRIMINAL FROM LOST HONOUR (FRIEDRICH SCHILLER), THE COLD HEART (WILHELM HAUFF), THE WONDERS IN THE SPESSART (KARL IMMERMANN), NOSE, THE DWARF (W. HAUFF), AXEL (C. F. VAN DER...

Goethe’s Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment...

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. . In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos. «¿Tendría, entonces, que ocurrir que lo que hace la felicidad del hombre se haga a su vez la fuente de su desdicha?» La historia de un joven abocado al suicidio por la infelicidad del desamor es la primera gran novela trágica europea. Basada en...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos. «Nada tenía y, sin embargo, tenía lo suficiente: el afán de saber la verdad y el placer por el engaño.» Este poema dramático, inspirado en una leyenda medieval, narra la historia de Fausto, sabio anciano que, en el ocaso de su existencia, establece...

En plena madurez, Goethe tardaría casi veinte años en completar Poesía y verdad (1811-1830), la autobiografía de su juventud, que abarca desde los días de su nacimiento hasta su partida a Weimar, ciudad en la que habría de residir hasta su muerte. Concebible como una variante verdadera de Bildungsroman,...

Beneath your leafy gloom, ye waving boughs Of this old, shady, consecrated grove, As in the goddess' silent sanctuary, With the same shudd'ring feeling forth I step, As when I trod it first, nor ever here Doth my unquiet spirit feel at home. Long as the mighty will, to which I bow, Hath kept me here...

A German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and...

A loosely autobiographical novel, this was Goethe's first major success, turning him from an unknown into a celebrated author practically overnight. The majority of the story is a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist with a very sensitive and passionate temperament, sent to his...

This volume, the third in the Sexuality series, contains three complete classics of erotica. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, known simply as the Kama Sutra, is justly famous for its descriptions of sexual positions, some of which can still be achieved by citizens of this era of abundant food,...