Goethe, Volume 9:
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Edited by Eric A. Blackall
In cooperation with Victor Lange

Paper | 1995 | $24.95 / £16.95
396 pp. | 6 x 9

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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free from the restrictive world of economics and seeks fulfillment as an actor and playwright. Along with Eric Blackall's fresh translation of the work, this edition contains notes and an afterword by the translator that aims to put this novel into historical and artistic perspective for twentieth-century readers while showing how it defies categorization.

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Other Princeton books by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

• Goethe, Volume 2: Faust I & II.
• Goethe, Volume 3: Essays on Art and Literature.
• Goethe, Volume 5: From My Life: Campaign in France 1792-Siege of Mainz.
• Goethe, Volume 10: Conversations of German Refugees--Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years or The Renunciants.
• Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella.

Subject Areas:

• Collected Works and Papers
• Comparative Literature
• Literature: Primary Works and Letters

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