Elective Affinities - (Penguin Classics) by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Condemned as immoral when it was first published, this novel reflects the conflict Goethe felt between his respect for the conventions of marriage and the possibility of spontaneous passion. <p/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.<br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</b> was born in Frankfurt-on-Main in 1749. He studied at Leipzig, where he showed interest in the occult, and at Strassburg, where Herder introduced him to Shakespeare's works and to folk poetry. He produced some essays and lyrical verse, and at twenty-two wrote <b>Götz von Berlichingen</b>, a play which brought him national fame and established him in the current Sturm und Drang movement. This was followed by the novel <b>The Sorrows of Young Werther</b> in 1774, which was an even greater success. <p/>Goethe began work on <b>Faust</b>, and <b>Egmont</b>, another tragedy before being invited to join the government of Weimar. His interest in the classical world led him to leave suddenly for Italy in 1786 and the Italian Journey recounts his travels there. <b>Iphigenia in Tauris</b> and <b>Torquato Tasso</b>, classical dramas, were written at this time. Returning to Weimar, Goethe started the second part of <b>Faust</b>, encouraged by Schiller. In 1806 he married Christiane Vulpius. During this late period he finished his series of Wilhelm Master books and wrote many other works, including <b>The Oriental Divan</b> (1819). He also directed the State Theatre and worked on scientific theories in evolutionary botany, anatomy and color. Goethe completed <b>Faust</b> in 1832, just before he died. <p/><b>R. J. Hollingdale</b> has translated eleven of Nietzsche's books and published two books about him. He has also translated works by, among others, Schopenhauer, Goethe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Lichtenberg and Theodor Fontane, many of these for the Penguin Classics. He is Honorary President of the British Nietzsche Society, and was for the Australian academic year 1991 Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Melbourne.
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