Title: Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit
Subtitle: (the first four books)
Description: **Selections from Books I-XI** "The present edition of selected portions of *Dichtung und Wahrheit* is intended for students that have acquired a certain facility in reading ordinary German, but still need help with the more difficult idioms and constructions, with rare and archaic words and phrases. For such students the reading of the whole Autobiography is neither would be neither possible nor desirable..." --- from the Preface, page iii.
Subjects: Dichtung und Wahrheit, autobiography, excerpts, German, memoir, reader, selections, study, translation
People: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)