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1999 was the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - next to Shakespeare, the most important writer in Western Literature, I'd say. Here's a table of contents. Here you can read an excerpt from Twain's The Awful German Language . Or read that whole text, as well as a couple more of Twain's jibes at German . German stories from the 19th century.