num_pages: 512
description: Since the year 1795, when it first appeared at Berlin, numerous editions of Meister have been printed: critics of all ranks, and some of them dissenting widely from its doctrines, have loaded it with encomiums; its songs and poems are familiar to every German ear; the people read it, and speak of it, with an admiration approaching in many cases to enthusiasm. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape what he views as the empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theater, Wilhelm commits himself to the mysterious Tower Society.
language: English
title: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
titlecomplete: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
characters: Wilhelm Meister, Philine, Laertes, Mignon
genres: Classics, 18th Century, Philosophy, Romanticism, Novels, German Literature, Germany, Classic Literature, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 3113
publisher: Aegypan