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A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘Wild, brilliant and possesses all the intelligence to compete with its subject. Five Stars.’ - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph
‘Explosive and expansive’ - Literary Review
‘Passionate’ - The Times
A captivating recreation of the life and work of Goethe by one of our greatest biographers.
Goethe was the inventor of the psychological novel, a pioneering scientist, great man of the theater and leading politician. As A. N. Wilson argues in this groundbreaking biography, it was his courage and insatiable curiosity that helped propel the Western world into the modern age. A. N. Wilson takes on Goethe's life with characteristic humor and vigor. From his youth as a fierce literary prodigy to his later years as Germany's most respected elder statesman, Wilson focuses on Goethe's relentless obsession with the work to which he would dedicate his entire life - Faust.
Goethe devoted over 60 years to writing the retelling of Faust, a strange and powerful work that absorbed all the philosophical questions of his time, as well as the revolutions and empires that came and went. It is his greatest work, but as Wilson explores, it is also something much more - it is the myth of how we came to be modern.
Pages: 416, Year of Publication: 0204, Dimensions: 15.8x15.8cm
Manufacturer
- Author
- A. N. Wilson
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Language
- English
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Number of Pages
- 416
- Release Date
- -
- Type
- Biography
- Attribute
- Artists
- Publication Date
- 2024
- Dimensions
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9781472994868
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