Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era.

He was a German writer and statesman. His works include: four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour.

This collection includes the following:

The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)

Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1794)

Elective Affinities (1809)

Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years (1821)

The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1795)

A Tale (1797)

The Good Women (1797)

The Wayward Lover (1768)

The Fellow Culprits (1769)

Goetz von Berlichingen (1773)

Clavigo (1774)

Egmont (1788)

The Brother and Sister (1776)

Stella (1776)

Iphigenia in Tauris (1779)

Torquato Tasso (1790)

The Natural Daughter (1803)

Faust: Part One (1808)

Faust: Part Two (1832)

The Poems of Goethe

Reynard the Fox (1794)

The Siege of Mainz (1793)

Theory of Colours (1810)

Introduction to ‘The Propyläen’ (1798)

Winckelmann and His Age (1805)

The Travel Writing

Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy (1816)

The Criticism

Goethe the Writer by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goethe by C. E. Vaughan

Goethe by John Cowper Powys

Goethe’s Faust by George Santayana

Shakespeare and Goethe by David Masson

Goethe’s Theory of Colors by John Tyndall

Extracts of Correspondence by Sir Walter Scott

The Autobiography

Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life (1811)

The Biographies

Conversations with Goethe (1836) by Johann Peter Eckermann

The Life of Goethe by Calvin Thomas (1886)

Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe by James Sime (1888)