Conversations with Eckermann - Being Appreciations and Criticisms on Many Subjects (Paperback)

1901. With a preface by Eckermann, a German author and scholar as well as Goethe's friend, archivist, and editor. The German poet, dramatist, novelist, translator, scientist and musician, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a master of world literature, the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister and Faust. Nowhere else can one encounter a more penetrating, many-sided and personal Goethe than in this extraordinary volume, which is a record of Goethe's conversation with his secretary, Eckermann, over a ten-year period. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.