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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Kindle Edition

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The play was late in breaking up: old Barbara went more than once to the window, and listened for the sound of carriages. She was waiting for Mariana, her pretty mistress, who had that night, in the afterpiece, been acting the part of a young officer, to the no small delight of the public. Barbara's impatience was greater than it used to be, when she had nothing but a frugal supper to present: on this occasion Mariana was to be surprised with a packet, which Norberg, a young and wealthy merchant, had sent by the post, to show that in absence he still thought of his love.
As an old servant, as confidant, counsellor, manager, and housekeeper, Barbara assumed the privilege of opening seals; and this evening she had the less been able to restrain her curiosity, as the favor of the open-handed gallant was more a matter of anxiety with herself than with her mistress.

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"One of the most influential literary works of the early nineteenth century . . . a masterpiece that resists all pigeonholing." —Independent

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Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (1749 - 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of meters and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and color and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist.

Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher. Considered one of the most important social commentators of his time, he presented many lectures during his lifetime with certain acclaim in the Victorian era. One of those conferences resulted in his famous work On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History where he explains that the key role in history lies in the actions of the "Great Man", claiming that "History is nothing but the biography of the Great Man".

Anna Swanwick (1813 - 1899) was an English author and feminist. Miss Swanwick's life was divided between literary pursuits and active philanthropy. She never sought publicity, but her example and influence had an important and invigorating effect on women's education and on their position in the community. She signed John Stuart Mill's petition to parliament in 1865 for the political enfranchisement of women. The University of Aberdeen conferred on her the honorary degree of LL.D. She was a Unitarian. Miss Swanwick was the centre of a large circle of distinguished friends, who included Crabb Robinson, Tennyson, Browning, Gladstone, James Martineau, and Sir James Paget, and these, with many others, were frequent visitors at her house. Her marvelous memory made her a delightful talker, and she was full of anecdotes in her later years about the eminent persons she had known.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01LYF8T8Z
Publisher ‏ : ‎ PubMe (October 5, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 5, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1216 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 443 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B0974T6FTS

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (/ˈgɜː(r)tə/; German: [ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈɡøːtə] ( listen); 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace, which in 1998 were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Jen

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2017

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Thanks for the help with my thesis ;)

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Tanner Hodges

Kindle missing Book 8

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024

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Thought this would include the full story, but the Kindle version only includes Books 1–7 and does not include the final volume with Book 8, so it's missing the end of the story.

In case anyone else is looking for the full story, please purchase a different version. This is not it.

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2014

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At last I've got round to reading it - in Carlyle's translation. I've had little to do with German literature, and felt myself quite adrift, not knowing whether it was because of Goethe or because of an alien culture. I persevered because I knew there was something to persevere for. A remarkable book with a sense of utter authority in its apparent digressive, accumulative style. A book of affinities. I'm very pleased I read it.

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Liam Phelan

Format hard to read with multiple misspellings

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2020

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Unfourntuantley there are three columns on each page of text (meaning they are all scrunched), with multiple typos due to a software program such as 1's for L's or, other odd misspellings that make the book difficult to read.

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Ben

Massive Width and Height, Tiny Margins, Printing Errors

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2021

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In terms of quality, this is the worst book I have ever bought brand new. The width and height are massive (8.5x11"), which wasn't made clear enough in the description--they pulled the "small print" trick. Not only that, but the margins are almost nonexistent. This was clearly an attempt to print with less paper to save money. Despite that, they couldn't bother to fix numerous printing errors involving indents. It looks as though they copy+pasted the text into Microsoft Word and didn't bother to format.

The actual writing by Goethe is fine, though. To be clear, the problem is with the scammers that printed this abomination.

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bummed

Interesting writer

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2014

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Got a little lost because of how the book was put together from the original book.Not what I expected but was pleased when I finally got to the end. It was a learning experience.

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Timfox

Badly formatted and full of typos

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2017

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This edition is full of typos created by text scanning software, and very oddly formatted (multiple columns on each page). Should be avoided.

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