Poetry and truth from my own life
By: by J. W. von Goethe; a revised translation by Minna Steele Smith, and with an introduction and bibliography, by Karl Breul
Contributors: Smith, Minna Steele, translator; Breul, Karl, 1860-1932; Oxenford, John, 1812-1877; Morrison, A. J. W. (Alexander James William), 1806-1865
Series: [Goethe's Works -- vol. 1-2]
Publisher: G. Bell
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Copyright date: 1913
Subjects: Bibliography
Other titles: Truth and poetry from my own life.
Work titles: Aus meinem Leben
Notes: On cover: Bohn's popular library.

Listed in Bohn's catalogues as vol. I-II of Goethe's works, translated by various hands.

The present translation is based on the well-known version by John Oxenford and the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, which was originally published in 1849. The editions of Dichtung und wahrheit which have been mainly used in making the revision are Heinemann's edition of Goethe's Werke, v. 13 and 14, and Cotta's Jubiläums ausgabe, with notes by Richard M. Meyer. For details as to Oxenford's translation, cf. note under entry of the Autobiography, 1848.

The earlier editions (Oxenford's version) are published under the title: The autobiography of Goethe. Truth and poetry from my own life.

Bibliography: vol. I, p. xxv-xxxiii.