Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees andWilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address v
Translated by Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. von NardroffThe reflections on art and literature that Goethe produced throughout his life are the premise and corollary of his work as poet, novelist, a
Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over 60 years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development. Faus