Goethe, Volume 5:
From My Life: Campaign in France 1792-Siege of Mainz
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Translated by Robert R. Heitner, notes by Thomas P. Saine

Paper | 1994 | $30.95 / £21.95
280 pp.

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Campaign in France 1792 -Siege of Mainz, Goethe's narrative of the unsuccessful campaign and the siege, has become a classic text for the history of Franco-German relations during the revolutionary period. A product of recollection, historical hindsight, and considerable study of other published sources, it is a fascinating document of the military catastrophe exposing the decline of Prussian power since the death of Frederick II, which eventually culminated in Napoleon's devastating 1806 victory at Jena and Auerstedt.

Table of Contents:

FROM MY LIFE: POETRY AND TRUTH, PART FOUR 519
Book Sixteen 522
Book Seventeen 535
Book Eighteen 555
Book Nineteen 576
Book Twenty 594
CAMPAIGN IN FRANCE 1792. SIEGE OF MAINZ 607
Introduction 609
Campaign in France 1792 618
Siege of Mainz 749
NOTES 777
From My Life: Poetry and Truth 779
Part Four 779
Campaign in France 1792 784
Siege of Mainz 798

Other Princeton books by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

• Goethe, Volume 2: Faust I & II.
• Goethe, Volume 3: Essays on Art and Literature.
• Goethe, Volume 9: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
• 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:

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

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