Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An authoritative English translation of one of the most important works in the history of the novel

The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English

One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man’s pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an...

Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther,...

Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and reveal his...

An authoritative English translation of one of the most important works in the history of the novel

An authoritative English translation of Goethe’s classic autobiographical account of war and conquest in the age of revolution

Translated by Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. von Nardroff


The reflections on art and literature that Goethe produced throughout his life are the premise and corollary of his work as poet, novelist, and man of science. This volume...