Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

German polymath The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Works

• The Works of J. W. von Goethe (14 volumes)

Dramas

• Faust
• Iphigenia in Tauris

Poems

• 1767 The Screaming
• 1767–69 Apparent Death
• 1769 The Joys
• 1769 Memento
• 1770–89 The Farewell (First Edition)
• 1770–89 Blind Cow (First Edition)
• 1770–89 When the Fox Dies, His Skin Counts (First Edition)
• 1771–89 The Heathrose (First Edition)
• 1771–75 Mayfest (First Edition; later published under the title May Song)
• 1770–75 Ganymede
• 1770–75 Prometheus
• 1782 The Alder King (Der Erlkönig)
• 1813 Found (Gefunden)
• 1823 Marienbad Elegy (Marienbader Elegie)

• Erotica Romana

Novels

• The Sorrows of Young Werther
• Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1 [1]
• Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 2 [2]

Scientific works

• Theory of Colours
• The Metamorphosis of Plants

Works about Goethe

• “Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von” in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• “Goethe” by Oscar Browning  in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), 1879.
• Benjamin Willis Wells, “Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1906.
• “Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von” by Walter Alison Phillips in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von” by Calvin Thomas  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.

On his works

• “Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors I” by John Tyndall in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 17, June 1880
• “Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors II” by John Tyndall in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 17, July 1880
• “Hermann und Dorothea” by Ewald Eiserhardt  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.