Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1
Author: first_name: Johann Wolfgang von
last_name: Goethe
Language: English
Year: 1882

This Autobiography of Goethe has a lengthy introduction and short biography of Goethe's life by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and was translated by John Oxenford (1812-1877) in 1848, which was a year of revolutions in Europe. Johann Goethe was a literary celebrity by the age of 25 and was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Carl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November of 1775 following the success of his first novel, <i>The Sorrows of Young Werther</i> (available on Libriv