Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In this book: Faust Translator: Bayard Taylor Erotica Romana The Sorrows of Young Werther Translator: R.D. Boylan Maxims and Reflections Translator: Thomas Bailey Saunders Autobiography Translated by John Oxenford

I dolori del giovane Werther e un romanzo epistolare di Johann Wolfgang Goethe pubblicato nel 1774. Appartiene all'eta giovanile di Goethe ed e considerato opera simbolo del movimento dello Sturm und Drang, anticipando molti temi che saranno propri del romanticismo tedesco."

In 1794, Goethe and Schiller were engaged in a correspondence concerning the connection of the human soul with the world of the senses on one hand and with the suprasensory on the other. While Schiller approached the question in a philosophical way, Goethe embodied his thoughts in a fantasy entitled The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. In his fantasy, Lily represents the ideal world of the suprasensory that is separated from the Green Snake, or the sensory, by a river. The goal is to build a bridge across the river that will connect the sensory and the suprasensory...