Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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List of Works
[Faust]   [Introduction to the Propyläen]   [Poetry and Truth]   [Sorrows of the Young Werther]   [Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]  

Faust (1808) [GBF,GBWW,GI,HTR,HC]
I believe that when this work is included in Great Books lists, Part 1 is what is actually meant.
  • Multi-format of Part 1 (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Bayard Taylor)
  • Flipbook Reader (248 pages, indexed) at Richer Resources Publications, includes parts I & II (translated by Douglas Langworthy)
  • German HTML of Part 1 (Multi-page) at Projekt Gutenberg-DE
  • German HTML of Part 2 (Multi-page) at Projekt Gutenberg-DE
  • German Multi-format of Part 1 (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg
  • German Multi-format of Part 2 (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg

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  • Hardcover edition of Selected Works : Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust; translations by Elizabeth Mayer and Louise Bogan (Knopf, 2000, 1248 pg).
  • Paperback edition of Faust, Part Two, translated by Martin Greenberg (Yale Univ Pr, 1998, 272 pg).
  • Paperback edition of Faust, Part One, translated by Peter Salm (Bantam Classics, 1988).
  • Spanish Paperback edition, Fausto (iUniverse.com, 1999, 260 pg).

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  • Paperback edition at Richer Resources Publications, translated by Douglas Langworthy.
  • French Paperback edition, Faust I et II, at Amazon.fr (Garnier Flammarion, 1990, 554 pg).
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Introduction to the Propyläen (1798) [HC]
  • HTML (Single page, 126 KB) at Bartleby.com (Translator unknown)
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Poetry and Truth (1811) [HTR]
German title Dichtung und Wahrheit.
  • German HTML excerpts (Multi-page) at Projekt Gutenberg-DE

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  • Used Hardcover edition of From My Life: Poetry and Truth (Parts 1-3/Campaign in France 1792 Siege of Mainz); copies available as of Aug. 31, 2002 (Princeton Univ Pr, 1987, 800 pg).

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  • German Hardcover? edition at Amazon.de (Reclam, Ditzingen, 1998, 1260 pg).
  • German Paperback edition, abridged, at Amazon.de (Reclam, Ditzingen, 1993, 263 pg).
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Sorrows of the Young Werther (1774) [HC]
  • Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Thomas Carlyle and R.D. Boylan)
  • German HTML (Multi-page) at Projekt Gutenberg-DE

    Available at Amazon.Com:
  • Hardcover edition of Selected Works : Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust; translations by Elizabeth Mayer and Louise Bogan (Knopf, 2000, 1248 pg).
  • Paperback edition, translated by Michael Hulse (Viking Press, 1989, 144 pg).
  • Paperback edition, translated by Louise Bogan (Vintage Books, 1990).
  • French Paperback edition, Les Souffrances De Jeune Werther (French & European Pubns, 1973).
  • Spanish Paperback edition, Los Sufrimientos del Joven Werther (iUniverse.com, 1999, 180 pg).
  • German Paperback edition, Die Leiden des Jungen Werther (Distribooks, 1997, 175 pg).
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795) [HC]
  • HTML (105 pages, indexed) at Bartleby.com (Translated by Thomas Carlyle)
  • German HTML (Multi-page) at Projekt Gutenberg-DE

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  • Paperback edition of Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 9: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, translated by Eric A. Blackall (Princeton Univ Pr, 1995, 396 pg).
  • French Paperback edition, Les années d'apprentissage de Wilhelm Meister (Gallimard, 1999).
  • Spanish Paperback edition, Los Anos de Aprendizaje de Wilhelm Meister (Ediciones Catedra S.A., 2001).

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  • French Paperback edition, Wilhelm meister (les annees d'apprentissage), at Amazon.fr (Gallimard, 1999, 788 pg).
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Poems (Johnson) (c. 1750-80?)
An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)
On the Origin of Inequality (1754)
Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding (pub. 1754)
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
On Political Economy (1755)
On the Sublime and Beautiful (1756)
On Taste (Burke) (1756)
Of the Standard of Taste (Hume) (1757)
Candide (1759)
The Prince of Abyssinia (or, Rasselas) (1759)
The Theory of the Moral Sentiments (1759)
Tristam Shandy (1759-67)
Confessions (Rousseau) (c. 1762; Pub. 1782)
Emile (or, On Education) (1762)
Rameau's Nephew (1762)
The Social Contract (1762)
Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
The Plays of William Shakespeare (Johnson) (1765)
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1765? - 2nd ed. 1768)
Sorrows of the Young Werther (1774)
Common Sense (1776)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88)
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Articles of Confederation (1777)
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (pub. 1779)
The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics (1780)
Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
The Lives of the Poets (1781)
Poems (Blake) (1783-94)
Prolegomena (1783)
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)
Introduction to the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1786)
Constitutional Convention Debates (1787)
Constitution of the United States (1787; effect. 1789)
Anti-Federalist Papers (1787-88)
Federalist Papers (1787-88)
Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
Elements of Chemistry (1789)
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
Songs of Innocence (1789)
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