Goethe’s classic tale of unrequited love and the tragedy that follows.

This 1st volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Cather, Willa:...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

A passionate young artist falls disastrously in love with a woman he can never truly have. What begins as longing soon becomes obsession, drawing him deeper into a world where beauty, desire, and despair are impossible to separate.Set against the restless intensity of youth, The Sorrows of Young Werther is a timeless portrait of emotional excess — the kind of love that feels larger than life and more dangerous because of it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

A profound and dramatic exploration of ambition, temptation, and the limits of human striving. Faust, a scholar dissatisfied with the limits of knowledge, makes a fateful pact with Mephistopheles in pursuit of deeper meaning and ultimate fulfillment. As he is drawn into a world of power, pleasure, and illusion, his journey becomes a powerful reflection on desire, morality, and consequence. Blending philosophy, romance, and supernatural elements, the story moves through moments of beauty, t...

The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in EnglishThe Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides English-language readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work by one of the greatest writers in world history. Goethe’s work as playwright, poet, novelist, and autobiographer is fully represented. In...

The Complete Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe! Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poems and Autobiography - In One Beautifully Formatted Volume!Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman, who left behind a huge legacy of literary works spanning many genres. Regularly placed amongst the very highest canon of literary masters, Goethe's huge collection of works are essential reading for any student or fan of great literature.

A pact with darkness. A quest for ultimate knowledge. A story that defines the human struggle. In Faust, a brilliant but restless scholar makes a fateful agreement that leads him into a world of temptation, ambition, and moral conflict. As he seeks meaning beyond the limits of human experience, his journey becomes a profound exploration of desire, consequence, and the price of ambition. Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, this legendary work stands as one of the greatest achievements in...

Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Fausthas made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust*,* Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethe’s genius creates some of...

"Faust" tells the story of a scholar named Heinrich Faust who is dissatisfied with his life and seeks deeper knowledge and meaning. Feeling disillusioned with his academic pursuits, Faust makes a pact with the devil, Mephistopheles. In exchange for his soul, Faust agrees to serve Mephistopheles and experience worldly pleasures and power.The play explores the themes of ambition, human desires, and the search for knowledge and fulfillment. Through the character of Faust, Goethe delves into t...

Faust: A Tragedy (German: Faust. Eine Tragödie, or retrospectively Faust. Der Tragödie / erster Teil) is the first part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German literature. It was first published in 1808.Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy (German: Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil in fünf Akten.) is the second part of the tragic play Fa...

In Elective Affinities Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocracts with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie and the Captain into their lives; against morality, good sense, and conscious volition all four are drawn into relationships as inexorably as if they were substances in a chemical equation. The novel asks whether we have free will or not; more disturbingly, it confronts its characters with the monstrous consequence...