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Maxims and Reflections
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Description for Maxims and Reflections
Paperback. Reveals some of the author's deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, and his reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Translator(s): Stopp, Elisabeth. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills … Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’.
Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics – and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140447200
SKU
V9780140447200
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99-98
About Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) Trans. Elisabeth Stopp, Edited With An Introduction And Notes By Peter Hutchinson
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