Goethe: The Poet and the Age

by Nicholas Boyle

Book Overview

When Volume I of Nicholas Boyle's biography of Goethe appeared, it received an avalanche of praise on both sides of the Atlantic. George Steiner, in The New Yorker, called it "the best biography of Goethe in English." Doris Lessing, in The Independent, called it "biography at its best." And The New York Times Book Review hailed it as "a remarkable achievement," adding "there is nothing comparable to this study in any language."
Now comes the second...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199257515
• ISBN13: 9780199257515
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 992 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"