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VOLUME II

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

THE GERMAN CLASSICS

MASTERPIECES OF GERMAN LITERATURE

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

IN TWENTY VOLUMES

ILLUSTRATED

1914

VOLUME II

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II

      INTRODUCTION TO THE ELECTIVE AFFINITIES.
         By Calvin Thomas

      THE ELECTIVE AFFINITIES.
         Translated by James Anthony Froude and R. Dillon Boylan

      SHAKESPEARE AND AGAIN SHAKESPEARE.
         Translated by Julia Franklin

      ORATION ON WIELAND.
         Translated by Louis H. Gray

      THE PEDAGOGIC PROVINCE (from "Wilhelm Meister's Travels").
         Translated by R. Dillon Boylan

      WINCKELMANN AND HIS AGE.
         Translated by George Krielin

      MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS.
         Translated by Bailey Saunders

      ECKERMANN'S CONVERSATION WITH GOETHE.
         Translated by John Oxenford

      GOETHE'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT AND HIS WIFE.
         Translated by Louis H. Gray

      GOETHE'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH K. F. ZELTER.
         Translated by Frances H. King

ILLUSTRATIONS—VOLUME II

Capri

Edward reading aloud to Charlotte and the Captain

Charlotte receives Ottilie. By P. Grotjohann

Edward and Ottilie. By P. Grotjohann

Edward, Charlotte, Ottilie and the Captain discuss the new plan of the house. By Franz Simm

Ottilie examines Edward's Presents. By P Grotjohann

Luciana posing as Queen Artemisia. By P. Grotjohann

Ottilie. By Wilhelm von Kaulbach

The Old Theatre, Weimar. By Peter Woltze

Martin Wieland. By E. Hader

Princess Amalia

Winckelmann

Weimar seen from the North

Goethe and his Secretary. By Johann Josef Schmeller

Goethe's Study

The Garden at Goethe's City House, Weimar. By Peter Woltze

Schiller's Garden House at Jena. Drawing by Goethe

The float at Jena. Drawing by Goethe

View into the Saale Valley near Jena. Drawing by Goethe

K.F. Zelter

INTRODUCTION TO THE ELECTIVE AFFINITIES

In the spring of the year 1807 Goethe began work on the second part ofWilhelm Meister. He had no very definite plot in view, but proposed tomake room for a number of short stories, all relating to the subject ofrenunciation, which was to be the central theme of the Wanderjahre. Inthe course of the summer, while he was taking the waters at Karlsbad,two or three of the stories were written. The following spring he seta

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