The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1

Author(s): Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, John Oxenford

Narrators: Barbara Baker, Craig Campbell, Awest, Expatriate, Rory Haye

Number of Chapters: 33

Length: 19 hours and 12 minutes

Language: English

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 or Truth and Poetry depending on the translator. Goethe wrote poems, such as, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, as well as plays, novels and some scientific works. He wrote the play Faust which is also available on Librivox. He was an Anti-Enlightenment writer. Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) assisted with the 1839 English translation of Johann Peter Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of his Life.

One reader, Barbara, submitted the following after reading a little of the book. "The publisher, J. H. Moore, seems to have cobbled his book together from sources which are not properly acknowledged if at all. For instance, the "Introduction" merely pinches an essay by Thomas Carlyle which was published in 1828. Google gives the publication date of "The Autobiography of Goethe" as "1901?" (Summary by Wikipedia and Craig Campbell)

Introduction by Thomas Carlyle (Barbara Baker)

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Barbara Baker)

Author's Preface (Barbara Baker)

First Book Part 1 (Barbara Baker)

First Book Part 2 (Barbara Baker)

First Book Part 3 (Barbara Baker)

Second Book Part 1 (Barbara Baker)

Second Book Part 2: The New Paris, Part 1 (Barbara Baker)

The New Paris, Part 2 (Barbara Baker)

The New Paris, Part 3 (Barbara Baker)

Third Book Part 1 (Craig Campbell)

Third Book Part 2 (Craig Campbell)

Fourth Book Part 1 (Barbara Baker)

Fourth Book Part 2 (Barbara Baker)

Fourth Book Part 3 (awest)

Fourth Book Part 4 (Barbara Baker)

Fifth Book Part 1 (Craig Campbell)

Fifth Book Part 2 (Expatriate)

Fifth Book Part 3 (Barbara Baker)

Sixth Book Part 1 (Barbara Baker)

Sixth Book Part 2 (Barbara Baker)

Sixth Book Part 3 (Barbara Baker)

Seventh Book Part 1 (Rory Haye)

Seventh Book Part 2 (Barbara Baker)

Seventh Book Part 3 (Craig Campbell)

Eighth Book Part 1 (Craig Campbell)

Eighth Book Part 2 (Craig Campbell)

Eighth Book Part 3 (Craig Campbell)

Eighth Book Part 4 (Barbara Baker)

Ninth Book Part 1 (Barbara Baker)

Ninth Book Part 2 (Barbara Baker)

Ninth Book Part 3 (Barbara Baker)

Ninth Book Part 4 End (Craig Campbell)

The audiobook The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1 falls under the genres of Biography & Autobiography. It is written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, John Oxenford.

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