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Author: Nicholas Boyle
First Published: 1991
Type of Work: Literary biography
Time of Work: 1749-1790
Setting: Germany and Italy
Principal Characters: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Charlotte Von Stein
Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
Subjects: Freedom, Suicide, Nature, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, Despair, Eighteenth century, Germany or German people, Switzerland or Swiss people
Locales: Germany, Italy, Switzerland

Havelock Ellis called George Henry Lewes’s biography of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, originally published in 1863, “one of the most admirable biographies in the English Language.” It is certainly the best biography of Goethe in English that we have had to this point, but Nicholas Boyle’s superbly researched and brilliantly written study may finally give his Victorian predecessor strong competition for the honor of being the best Goethe biography in English. Lewes, George Eliot’s lover and a fine journalist and critic, had met Goethe and had the advantage of living in the century...

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