Conversations with Goethe

Conversations with Goethe
Johann Peter Eckermann
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 512pg
6 May 2021 UK
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9780241421673
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By the end of the nineteenth century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world' s most celebrated poet, novelist, critic and thinker. Today his name is echoed as that of a ' great man' alongside Plato, Montaigne and Shakespeare. This book covers the last nine years of his life, partially spent having conversations with the young Johann Eckermann, who was thirty-one to Goethe' s seventy-four, and who dedicated this time to recording Goethe' s thoughts, ideas, observations and witticisms. The result is Conversations with Goethe, the most direct glimpse into the Great Man' s mind, revealing a gentler, more human side to him, as well as his thoughts on art, science, poetry, philosophy and the minutiae of life.
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Johann Peter Eckermann was born in 1792 in Harburg. In 1823 he sent Goethe, his childhood idol, the manuscript of his book, and he became Goethe' s unpaid literary assistant for nine years. This long relationship led to the creation of Eckermann' s most well-remembered work Conversations of Goethe, first published in 1836. Eckermann died in 1854 in Weimar, Prussia.
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ISBN-13: 9780241421673
Published: 6 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 512

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