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" Henriette s'était déjà promenée quelque temps avec Armidore, dans le jardin où le club d'été avait coutume de se rassembler. Ils arrivaient souvent les premiers. Ils avaient l'un pour l'autre une affection que ne troublait aucun nuage, et ils nourrissaient, dans une honnête et pure intimité, l'agréable espérance d'une prochaine et indissoluble union.La vive Henriette aperçut à peine Amélie, qui s'avançait de loin vers le pavillon, qu'elle courut saluer son amie. Amélie venait de s'asseoir dans le salon d'entrée, devant la table sur laquelle se trouvaient étalés des journaux, des gazettes et d'autres nouveautés.C'est là qu'Amélie passait maintes soirées à lire, sans se laisser distraire par les allées et les venues des personnes de la société, par le claquement des fiches et la conversation toujours bruyante des joueurs. Elle parlait peu, si ce n'est pour opposer son opinion à une autre. Henriette, au contraire, était fort libérale de ses paroles, contente de tout, et toujours en humeur d'approuver..."

Iphigénie en Tauride (en allemand : Iphigenie auf Tauris) est une réécriture par Goethe de la tragédie grecque d'Euripide, Iphigeneia en Taurois. Sans doute influencé par les titres des auteurs français et italiens qui l'ont précédé sur ce thème, Goethe a choisi pour son ¿uvre la forme latine du titre, Iphigénie en Tauride, la Tauride étant un pays imaginaire, alors que le titre original d'Euripide signifie Iphigénie chez les Tauri, une peuplade scythe établie à l'époque en Crimée.

An authoritative English translation of one of the most important works in the history of the novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-1796), Goethe's second novel, is a foundational work in the history of the genre--perhaps the first Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story focusing on the growth and self-realization of the main character. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free from the restrictive bourgeois world of his upbringing and seek fulfillment as an actor and playwright. Goethe's novel had a huge impact on the Romantics. Hegel, Schelling, Novalis, and Schopenhauer considered it one of the most important novels yet written. Schlegel famously called it one of the "three tendencies of the age," along with the French Revolution and the philosophy of Fichte. And Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann composed songs to poems from the novel. It also had a major influence on nineteenth-century British writers, including Thomas Carlyle, who was its first English translator, and George Eliot. Drawn from Princeton's authoritative collected works of Goethe, and featuring a new introduction by David Wellbery, this is the definitive English version of a landmark of world literature.

Johhan Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, written between 1806 and 1831, was translated by Bayard Taylor in 1870 and published In 1871. It was illustrated by Harry Clarke in a 1925 edition published by Hartsdale House that was limited to 2,000 copies. Bayard Taylor's translation preserves the beautiful, metered verse and rhyme of von Goethe's adaptation of the legend of Dr. Faust. That translation is faithfully reproducedin this edition as are the famous Harry Clarke illustrations, which are credited with influencing the psychedelic art movement in the 1960's. The eight color plates are reproduced in black and white.

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