Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also known as: [德]歌德, 【德】歌德, (德)歌德等著, [德]歌德著, (德)歌德著

Born
1749–1832
Nationality
Germany
Notable works
Faust (Part One)FaustFaust

40 written works

About the author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was a German thinker, writer and scientist, and the most celebrated representative of Weimar Classicism. Born in Frankfurt am Main, he rose to fame in 1774 with The Sorrows of Young Werther, an epistolary novel whose heartfelt emotional portrayal moved many readers of the time. Over the following decades he continued to write; his masterpiece, the verse drama Faust, took many years to complete and explores striving, temptation and redemption, exerting a profound influence. The library holds 40 of his works, including several versions of Faust, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the four-volume Collected Translations of Feng Zhi, spanning literature, foreign literature, classics, world masterpieces, essays and modern poetry. His writing combines philosophical reflection with lyricism across many genres, and holds an important place in German and world literature.

Written (40)

The Sorrows of Young Werther cover
Rating 4.3
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 绿绮 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 A milestone in the history of the European novel and the representative work of Goethe, a literary giant whose influence shaped Stendhal and Balzac. H…
Faust (Part I) cover
Rating 4.3
Faust (Part I) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 杨武能 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 One of the four great classics of Western literature and the culmination of Goethe's lifelong endeavor, Faust is a hymn to humanity's spirit of ceasel…
Faust (Part II) cover
Rating 4.2
Faust (Part II) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 杨武能 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 One of the four great classics of Western literature, the crystallization of Goethe's lifelong effort, and a hymn to the unyielding human spirit. Faus…
The Sorrows of Young Werther cover
Rating 4.1
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 The plot is simple. Young Werther arrives in a small town, where the natural scenery, the simple customs, and the innocent, happy children give him gr…
The Sorrows of Young Werther cover
Rating 4.5
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 巴蜀译翁杨武能 New Century Publishing House · 2025 This book is a landmark work of Germany's Sturm und Drang movement. A young man named Werther falls in love with a girl named Lotte, who is already en…
Faust (Part One) cover
Rating 4.8
Faust (Part One) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 谷裕 The Commercial Press · 2024 Faust: Part One comprises 4,612 lines of verse and 60 lines of prose. The complete work was first published in 1808, and its composition spanned nearl…
Faust cover
Rating 4.7
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 董问樵 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Faust, a man of great learning, has grown weary of his long life in the study and feels lost and uneasy about the future, unsure where to turn. In ext…
The Sorrows of Young Werther cover
Rating 4.5
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 陈伯雨 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2024 Goethe was a preeminent German poet and writer whose prolific career spanned more than half a century, contributing greatly to the development of Euro…
The Man with Two Shadows: Classic German Novellas cover
Rating 4.2
The Man with Two Shadows: Classic German Novellas Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 凯勒 / 施蒂弗特 / 施笃姆 The Commercial Press · 2024 The novella (Novelle) is a genre or form in Western literature with a long lineage, favored by generations of writers and readers alike. In German-lan…
Mignon's Song cover
Rating 4.2
Mignon's Song Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 杨武能 The Commercial Press · 2024 This volume is a selection of poems by Goethe, the renowned German writer and thinker. Goethe is a major figure in world literature who over his lifet…
The Legend of the Third Dove: Classic German Short Stories cover
Rating 4.1
The Legend of the Third Dove: Classic German Short Stories Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Heinrich Heine / Stefan Zweig / 杨武能 The Commercial Press · 2024 German literature is renowned for its poetry and the "Novelle" (short and medium-length fiction). Most celebrated German-language writers produced out…
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship cover
Rating 4.6
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 杨武能 The Commercial Press · 2023 Although this Bildungsroman is rich and profound in content and explores artistic questions in depth, detail and thoroughness, it is by no means dry o…
The Sorrows of Young Werther cover
Rating 4.5
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 胡其鼎 Zhonghua Book Company · 2023 Published in 1774, The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary novel from Goethe's early years and a representative work of his Romanticism. It depi…
Autumn Day: Selected Poems Translated by Feng Zhi cover
Rating 4.5
Autumn Day: Selected Poems Translated by Feng Zhi Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Heinrich Heine / Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche / Feng Zhi Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press · 2023 Feng Zhi was a renowned modern Chinese scholar, poet, and translator whose poetry and translations have influenced generations of readers and poets. A…
Collected Works of Goethe (Complete 5 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.4
Collected Works of Goethe (Complete 5 Volumes) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 艾克曼 / 樊修章 / Feng Zhi Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2023 This set comprises Faust, Conversations with Goethe, The Wanderer's Night Song, Elective Affinities, and The Sorrows of Young Werther. The verse drama…
The Original Faust cover
Rating 4.4
The Original Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 陈巍 People's Literature Publishing House · 2023 Urfaust was composed between 1768 and 1775 as the first draft of Part One of Goethe's verse drama Faust, when Goethe was only in his twenties. More th…
Elective Affinities cover
Rating 4.3
Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 高中甫 The Commercial Press · 2023 Among Goethe's late works, the novel holds an important place. Both Elective Affinities (1809) and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (1821–1829) are …
Faust (Part Two) cover
Rating 4.5
Faust (Part Two) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 谷裕 The Commercial Press · 2022 Part Two of Faust was written mainly between 1825 and 1831, during Goethe's 76th to 82nd years. It distils his lifelong practice and thought. Part Two…
The Sorrows of Young Werther cover
Rating 4.5
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 杨武能 The Commercial Press · 2022 The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary novel with a very simple plot: the protagonist Werther falls in love with the young woman Lotte, but Lot…
Faust cover
Rating 4.8
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 杨武能 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2021 This magnificent verse drama, six decades in the making, is the crowning achievement of Goethe's life in art. It is a soaring hymn to humanity's unend…

Publishers

Shanghai Joint Publishing CompanyShanghai People's Publishing HouseShanghai Culture Publishing HouseShanghai Translation Publishing HouseZhonghua Book CompanyChina Friendship Publishing CompanyChina Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing HousePeople's Literature Publishing HouseBeijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.The Commercial PressForeign Language Teaching and Research PressShanghai Wenhui Publishing HouseNew Century Publishing HouseChunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House民主与建设出版社Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing HouseHunan Literature and Art Publishing HouseLiaoning People's Publishing House