Wilhelm Meister''s Apprenticeship - Princeton Classics Edition

An authoritative English translation of one of the most important works in the history of the novelWilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-1796), Goethe's second novel, is a foundational work in the history of the genre-perhaps the first Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story focusing on the growth and self-realization of the main character. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free from the restrictive bourgeois world of his upbringing and seek fulfillment as an actor and playwright. Goethe's novel had a huge impact on the Romantics. Hegel, Schelling, Novalis, and Schopenhauer considered it one of the most important novels yet written. Schlegel famously called it one of the "three tendencies of the age," along with the French Revolution and the philosophy of Fichte. And Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann set poems from the novel to music. It also had a major influence on nineteenth-century British writers, including Thomas Carlyle, who was its first English translator, and George Eliot. Drawn from Princeton's authoritative collected works of Goethe, and featuring a new introduction by David Wellbery, this is the definitive English version of a landmark of world literature.

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• Authors: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Assisted by: David E. Wellbery (Introduction), Wellbery David E. (Introduction), Eric A. Blackall (Editor and translation), Blackall Eric A. (Editor and translation), Victor Lange (Editor and translation), Lange Victor (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2024
• EAN: 9780691259147
• ISBN: 978-0-691-25914-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Princeton Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Germany, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / German, Romanticism, Classic fiction: general and literary