What lies in wait at the nexus of heartbreak and unrequited love? In teasing out the answer to this question, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe produced The Sorrows of Young Werther, one of history’s first bestsellers and the book that would propel Goethe to celebrity status and the heights of the Sturm and Drang movement that defined Germany’s literary scene during the late 1700s.The novel follows Werther, a young and sensitive artist, through his letters writte...

When man petitions the heavens, is it God or the devil who answers? This question, central to the human experience, is the driving force behind Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s seminal 1806 play, Faust.Based loosely on the facts and dramatized retellings of 15th century alchemist, astrologer, and magician Johann Georg Faust, the play follows Faust’s search for limitless understanding and wisdom through magical means outside the realms of science and religion. The devil, keen t...

A young man arrives in a country town, falls in love with a woman already promised to another, and writes letters about it until there is nothing left to write. Goethe was twenty-four; the book made him famous across Europe, was blamed for a wave of imitative suicides, and embarrassed him for the rest of his long life. Its power is the voice — unguarded, self-dramatising, and horribly recognisable.

How far would you go in the pursuit of limitless knowledge and fulfillment? In Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe presents one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature—a profound dramatic work that explores the eternal questions of ambition, morality, desire, and the meaning of human existence. Through unforgettable characters and poetic brilliance, Goethe crafts a timeless story that continues to challenge, inspire, and captivate readers across generations. Blending philosophy, tra...

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:...

This volume gathers Goethe's essays and conversations on art, literature, and dramatic theory, presenting him as one of criticism's great minds. Viscount Haldane's foreword frames Goethe's critical writing as inseparable from his poetry and philosophy, while the contents range from architecture and aesthetics to Shakespeare, world literature, and Eckermann's conversations, promising a sweeping guide to his thought. At the center is Goethe's passionate defense of originality against imitati...

Discover the brilliance of one of history's greatest literary minds with the Collected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This comprehensive collection brings together the timeless writings of Germany's most celebrated author, poet, philosopher, and playwright. From profound poetry and unforgettable dramas to thought-provoking novels and essays, Goethe's works explore love, ambition, nature, beauty, philosophy, and the complexities of the human experience. Inside This Collection: A Compr...

A brilliant scholar has mastered every science known to man — and found it worthless. Consumed by despair, Doctor Faust summons a devil and strikes an impossible bargain: his immortal soul for a single moment of true fulfillment. What follows is a descent through temptation, forbidden love, and ruin that spans heaven, earth, and hell itself. Goethe spent nearly sixty years perfecting this masterpiece, and it shows in every line — restless, dangerous, unforgettable. Few books have dared to ...

There are two matching lockets in the world, a heart on a chain, one for each of Coralee Crews' girls, given the year she died. Hazel has worn hers for eighteen years. Sylvie has never once taken hers off. So when Hazel's hand closes around a locket that isn't hers — down in the seam of her husband's truck, warm, familiar, wrong — she knows whose it is before she's even lifted it into the light. And she understands, in one long airless second, the two things that just ended: her marriage, ...

There was never a moment Lark Boon could point to. No lipstick, no hotel, no name in a phone she wasn't supposed to see. Just a path worn into the grass between her house and the widow's — deeper every month — and a husband whose phone lit up at the same hour every night, and who took it out to the porch to talk low in the dark.When Cain's best friend Dooley died, Cain did what a good man does: he looked after Dooley's widow. The whole club called it loyalty. Lark called it loyalty ...

For two years, Mai Tran was the best-kept secret in Delano — and she told herself that was almost the same thing as being loved.Priest was everything a careful woman knows to stay away from: a senior officer in the Blackvein MC, married eight years to Renata, one half of the golden couple the whole club held up as proof that a hard life could still look respectable. What nobody held up — what nobody was allowed to see — was Mai. The side road. The one he came to when the respectable...

Talon cheated. Not an almost, not a maybe, not a line blurred in the dark — a real affair, four months of it, while his marriage went quiet around the grave of Juniper's father. He told himself the thing every coward tells himself: that they were already over. That the drift between them was a death, not a distance. So he wrote the ending of a twelve-year marriage in another woman's bed and didn't bother telling his wife the story was finished until she found the last page herself.J...