Goethe contained many people and Wilson’s book contains a dozen others, including a treatise on suicide, a life of the playwright Friedrich Schiller (Goethe’s best friend), introductions to ...

If Goethe never tired of acknowledging his profound indebtedness to the Book of Books, he never ceased to reiterate till the end of his days his deep gratitude to the “God-intoxicated Jew ...

Helen and Kurt Wolff immigrated to New York in 1941, and founded Pantheon Books, a publishing house devoted mainly to the translation of German and other European literature. The Goethe-Institut’s ...

Goethe is said to have written the second part ... for the sheer sake of doing it ," writes Csíkszentmihályi in his 1990 book Flow: The Secret of Happiness. Csíkszentmihályi has conducted ...

Read and discuss works by contemporary German authors in this new series hosted by the Goethe-Institut. All books can be read in recent English translation or in the German original; our discussion ...

Molly Nonfiction, 1850 in this translation Six weeks ago a commenter suggested I read “Conversations of Goethe.” Thank you, commenter. The book, a version of which was first published in 1836 ...

YEOJU, Gyeonggi Province — Chon Young-ae had been up writing since 4: 20 a.m. The professor emeritus at Seoul National University (SNU) is in the process of selecting and translating into Korean ...

Not so AN Wilson. He approaches Goethe with an almost Goethean fervour. His book is a double biography, since it is as much concerned with the conception, development and difficult birth of the drama ...

The author of over 60 books has just finished a draft for a book on the gardens of Yeobaek House of Books and two Goethe houses. YEOJU, Gyeonggi Province — Chon Young-ae had been up writing ...