The Autobiography of Goethe

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This is John Oxenford's translation of Goethe's Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life, Books I to XX, in a revised edition. The first-person text recalls a father who sets double lessons to make up for time lost to illness, and visits to a grandfather and grandmother whose house on the Friedberg street looks as if it had once been a fortress, with a battlemented gate.

Behind the house is a garden with vine trellises, a vegetable plot, flower borders, espalier peach-trees on the south wall and rows of currant and gooseberry bushes. Under the heading Strasburg Manners, the Strasburgers are called passionate walkers, and their pleasure-grounds and the varied costume of the women are described.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, novelist, and statesman widely regarded as the greatest figure of German literature. His range, from Werther to Faust, shaped European culture for generations.