johann w goethe

Goethe is alongside with Poe my best,favourite classic 1700s-1800s author and i try to read everything i can find in swedish translation since german language is very close to sweidish i dont read him in english translations. Gollum asked me in other thread what i had read of . I have read...

I have been toying with the idea of buying this book, just saw a nice "everyman's library" of selected works of Gothe includes 'Faust' and 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' (which sound interesting). However the combination of 'Faust' being a play and translated and being written 200 years ago. I...