The Essential Goethe

The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. In addition to the works for which he is most famous, including Faust Part I and the lyric poems, the volume features important literary works that are rarely published in English--including the dramas Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso, a selection from the travel journal Italian Journey, and the bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister s Apprenticeship, a foundational work in the history of the novel. The volume also offers a selection of Goethe s essays on the arts, philosophy, literature, and science, and an extensive introduction to Goethe s life and works by volume editor Matthew Bell. Primarily drawn from Princeton s authoritative twelve-volume Goethe edition, these highly readable and reliable translations make up an essential anthology of one of the greatest writers in world history.