{"title":"Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe","description":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer and according to George Eliot, \"Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth.\" Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism and science. Goethe's magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.","products":[{"product_id":"the-sorrows-of-young-werther-paperback","title":"The Sorrows of Young Werther - Paperback","description":"\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version. The Vintage Classics edition also includes NOVELLA, Goethe's poetic vision of an idyllic pastoral society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen this book was published in 1774, it inspired a mass cult of feelings (and reputedly a few suicides) and made its author one of the first literary celebrities. It is a story of a tormented young man whose fixation on an inaccessible woman culminates in tragedy may be read as a celebration of unfettered emotion or as a mercilessly accurate portrait of a man whose dedication to pure feeling turns him into a monster.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101660057823,"sku":"9780679729518","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/86s-WLe9T-9780679729518.webp?v=1781071923"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}