Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Ludwig, Emil

Goethe: the history of a man 1749-1832 Emil Ludwig; Translated by Ethel Colburn Mayne - New York Blue Ribbon Books, Inc. 1928 - 647 p.

Includes index

Genius and demon --
The earth-spirit --
Tragic victory.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had neither a happy nor harmonious nature, but one in the highest degree enigmatic, that he was neither a Don Juan nor a sycophant of princes, that as an observer and sage, he was no less great than as a poet. This book displays a slow-moving panorama of the landscapes of his soul. The reader will see with admiration how, for that strenuous nature, work was never the aim of life, but only one of the means whereby to keep one's self alive. This book shows his slow spontaneous evolution as the reward of his active patience.

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832


Biography--18th century
Biography--19th century

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