Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- ISBN-10
- 1843919109
- ISBN-13
- 9781843919100
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 109
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press
- Author
- Andrew Piper
Description
Andrew Piper's biography is a scrupulously-researched study of this most influential of German writers. Considered the father of German literature, Goethe was a polymath whose life spanned the European Enlightenment, and who in turn had a huge impact on European philosophy, science and literature.
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