An edition of Aus meinem Leben (1800)

The auto-biography of Goethe.

Truth and poetry: from my own life.

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An edition of Aus meinem Leben (1800)

The auto-biography of Goethe.

Truth and poetry: from my own life.

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H.G. Bohn
Language
English
Pages
520

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Cover of: The autobiography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The autobiography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1974, University of Chicago Press
in English
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Truth and fiction relating to my life
1902, F. A. Niccolls & company
in English
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Truth and fiction relating to my life
1902, Robertson, Ashford and Bentley
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First edition?
The edition in 3 volumes, London, 1846, quoted in Goedeke's Grundrisz., 3. aufl., IV. bd., 3. abt. (1912) is not found in Lowndes' Manual; K. Breul's bibliography (in Poetry and truth ... rev. translation by M. S. Smith, London, 1908); E. Oswald's Goethe in England and America (Publication of the English Goethe society, no. XI, 1909)
Oxenford's translation was preceded in England by the anonymous (abridged) translation in 2 volumes, London, 1824, and a likewise anonymous translation of books I-III and part of book IV in Blackwood's magazine, v. 46-47, 1839-40. It was followed in 1849 by A. J. W. Morrison's translation of the seven remaining books.
The 2 volumes of the Autobiography, with the Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy (v. 2, London, 1849) are listed in Bohn's Catalogue as vols. I-II of Goethe's works, tr. by various hands, in Bohn's standard library.
Oxenford's translation of books I-X is an almost literal reprint of the translation by Parke Godwin and J. H. Hopkins, published in 1846 by Wiley & Putnam, New York. In his "Advertisement" Oxenford says that the "American version" is "not sufficiently faithful," that he found "many successful renderings" in the work of this predecessor (whose name he does not give) and that he engrafted them without hesitation. Parke Godwin in the preface to the 2d edition of his translation (New York, G.P. Putnam, 1850) states that Oxenford "simply appropriated the American edition, superadding to the wrong of the theft the injustice of a false accusation," and that "the 'many successful renderings' ... comprise nearly the whole twenty books; that is, the entire work." cf. also H. S. White, Goethe in America, Goethe jahrbuch v (1884) p. 233.

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[Goethe's Works, Vol. I]
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Truth and poetry: from my own life.

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PT2027 .A808 1848

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vii, [1], 520 p.
Number of pages
520

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OL6604589M
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18000830
OCLC/WorldCat
5954184

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