The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1

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LibriVox recording of The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (Translated by John Oxenford.) Read in English by Barbara Baker; Craig Campbell; awest; Expatriate; and Rory Haye. This Autobiography of Goethe has a lengthy introduction and short biography of Goethe's life by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and was translated by John Oxenford (1812-1877) in 1848, which was a year of revolutions in Europe. Johann Goethe was a literary celebrity by the age of 25 and was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Carl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November of 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther (available on Librivox). He lived in Germany from 1749-1832. This period corresponds to the same time as the Seven Years' War, and the French and American Revolutions (1754-1815). Goethe was a member of the Sturm und Drang literary movement. This group of writers believed that literature should shock the audience in order to produce extreme emotions as a counterbalance to the rationalist movement which promoted detachment in the sciences. This is the first part of his autobiography, which he called Truth and Fiction…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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librivox; audiobooks;poetry; history; religion; memoirs; autobiography; Romanticism; enlightenment; german literature; johann goethe

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