The Life of Goethe
Subtitle: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Critical Biographies (Paper))
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780631231738
First sentence: The Age of Goethe - or the Goethezeit, to use a term much derided because of its centralization of, and around, Goethe - is an arbitrary period useful principally to biographers and bibliographers; and yet its continued use indicates how comprehensively the period was, or is perceived to have been, dominated by one man and his literary achievement.