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This sterling biography of Germany's greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as if we are seeing him for the first time.
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Ranier Maria Rilke challenges you, "...to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answers." Rilke's ability to combine the sensual and the spiritual into an inspired vision of the art of living is brought to vivid life in his letters. Through his eyes, the everyday difficulties of love, sex, solitude, sadness, and doubt are seen as the archetypal elements of the drama called life.
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Priceless Recordings of Intense Feeling
- De David en 10-08-04
De: Rainer Maria Rilke, y otros
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- De: William Egginton
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
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In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history.
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Very Interesting and Informative, but Poorly Read
- De LCorSMT en 06-21-23
De: William Egginton
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Romantic Outlaws
- The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
- De: Charlotte Gordon
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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Charlotte Gordon's new work is a fresh look at the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, who together comprise one of the most illustrious and inspiring mother-daughter pairs in history.
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Tons of info, poor format choice.
- De Gotta Tellya en 02-06-17
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Emerson
- The Mind on Fire
- De: Robert D. Richardson
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie
- Duración: 26 h y 8 m
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord.
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Finally!
- De Douglas en 08-15-14
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- De: Colm Toibin
- Narrado por: Colm Toibin
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways these men surface in their work. Through these stories of fathers and sons, Tóibín recounts the resistance to English cultural domination, the birth of modern Irish cultural identity, and the extraordinary contributions of these complex and masterful authors.
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Eminently re-readable
- De Ellen-A en 01-02-19
De: Colm Toibin
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Melville in Love
- The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick
- De: Michael Shelden
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author's rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by academics for so long, and because he made little effort to preserve his legacy, we know very little about Melville, and even less about what he called his "wicked book". Scholars still puzzle over what drove Melville to invent Captain Ahab's mad pursuit of the great white whale.
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intriguing
- De Jean en 06-18-16
De: Michael Shelden
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Figuring
- De: Maria Popova
- Narrado por: Natascha McElhone
- Duración: 21 h y 27 m
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Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement.
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Stunning
- De Laura en 03-12-19
De: Maria Popova
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The Consolations of Philosophy
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: He has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.
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Cheering, empathic, helpful
- De Austin en 11-11-09
De: Alain de Botton
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A Life Observed
- A Spiritual Biography of C.S. Lewis
- De: Devin Brown
- Narrado por: Jon Gauger
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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A Life Observed tells the inspiring story of Lewis' spiritual journey from cynical atheist to joyous Christian. Drawing on Lewis' autobiographical works, books by those who knew him personally, and his apologetic and fictional writing, this spiritual biography brings the beloved author’s story to life while shedding light on his best-known works.
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A beautifully written remembrance
- De Rob en 02-06-18
De: Devin Brown
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Charlotte Brontë
- A Fiery Heart
- De: Claire Harman
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
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Charlotte Brontë's life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. Like Jane Eyre, she was raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors and sent away to a brutally strict boarding school at a young age. Charlotte grew up and watched helplessly as, one by one, her five beloved siblings sickened and died; by the end of her short life, she was the only child of the Brontë clan remaining.
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Clear-Eyed Bio of Literature's Most Elusive Figure
- De wally en 09-02-16
De: Claire Harman
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Magnificent Rebels
- The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
- De: Andrea Wulf
- Narrado por: Julie Teal
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
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When did we begin to be as self-centered as we are today? At what point did we expect to have the right to determine our own lives? When did we first ask the question, how can I be free? It all began in the 1790s in a quiet university town in Germany when a group of playwrights, poets, and writers put the self at center stage in their thinking, writing, and their lives.
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fascinating overall, too much drama
- De soup cook en 11-27-22
De: Andrea Wulf
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Fryderyk Chopin
- A Life and Times
- De: Dr. Alan Walker
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 23 h y 28 m
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Based on 10 years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker's work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin.
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This book is a masterpiece
- De Carpe Diem en 02-09-19
De: Dr. Alan Walker
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Goethe
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Ritchie Robertson
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 4 h y 26 m
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In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist, administrator, artist, art critic, and supreme literary writer in a vast variety of genres. Looking at Goethe's poetry, novels, and drama pieces, as well as his travel writing, autobiography, and essays on art and aesthetics, Robertson analyzes some of the key themes in his works: love, nature, religion, and tragedy.
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Wow I knew he was good but idk he was that Goethe
- De Anonymous User en 09-27-24
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Goethe: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Six Full-Cast Dramatisations Including Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther and More
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Simon Callow, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jack Farthing, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and his epic masterpiece Faust is one of the most famous and celebrated dramas of all time.
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Faust: Parts I & II
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Jack Wynters
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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Goethe’s two-part dramatic work, Faust, based on a traditional theme, and finally completed in 1831, is an exploration of that restless intellectual and emotional urge which found its fullest expression in the European Romantic movement, to which Goethe was an early and major contributor. Part I of the work outlines a pact Faust makes with the devil, Mephistopheles, and encompasses the tragedy of Gretchen, whom Faust seduces.
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Great great book
- De John A. en 09-15-21
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Faust
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Tim Habeger
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
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Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever.
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- De Joe Reader en 05-10-14
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Faust
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Auriol Smith, Gunnar Cauthery, Stephen Critchlow, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
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Faust is one of the pillars of Western literature. This classic drama presents the story of the scholar Faust, tempted into a contract with the Devil in return for a life of sensuality and power. Enjoyment rules, until Faust’s emotions are stirred by a meeting with Gretchen, and the tragic outcome brings Part 1 to an end. Part 2, written much later in Goethe’s life, places his eponymous hero in a variety of unexpected circumstances, causing him to reflect on humanity and its attitudes to life and death.
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Mixed Feelings
- De Kyle en 12-04-11
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Faust: Parts 1 & 2
- De: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Narrado por: Adriel Brandt
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Faust is a tragic play in two parts that reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant but disillusioned scholar who makes a deal with the devil. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's masterpiece and the greatest work of German literature. Part I sets out Faust’s despair, his pact with Mephistopheles, and his love for Gretchen. Part II deals with Faust’s life at court, the wooing and winning of Helen of Troy, and his purification and redemption.
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German Classic
- De J. E. Baker en 02-06-24
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Goethe
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Ritchie Robertson
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 4 h y 26 m
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In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist, administrator, artist, art critic, and supreme literary writer in a vast variety of genres. Looking at Goethe's poetry, novels, and drama pieces, as well as his travel writing, autobiography, and essays on art and aesthetics, Robertson analyzes some of the key themes in his works: love, nature, religion, and tragedy.
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Wow I knew he was good but idk he was that Goethe
- De Anonymous User en 09-27-24
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Goethe: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Six Full-Cast Dramatisations Including Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther and More
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Simon Callow, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jack Farthing, y otros
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and his epic masterpiece Faust is one of the most famous and celebrated dramas of all time.
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Faust: Parts I & II
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Jack Wynters
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Goethe’s two-part dramatic work, Faust, based on a traditional theme, and finally completed in 1831, is an exploration of that restless intellectual and emotional urge which found its fullest expression in the European Romantic movement, to which Goethe was an early and major contributor. Part I of the work outlines a pact Faust makes with the devil, Mephistopheles, and encompasses the tragedy of Gretchen, whom Faust seduces.
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Great great book
- De John A. en 09-15-21
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Faust
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Tim Habeger
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Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever.
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Where's Part II???
- De Joe Reader en 05-10-14
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Faust
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Auriol Smith, Gunnar Cauthery, Stephen Critchlow, y otros
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Faust is one of the pillars of Western literature. This classic drama presents the story of the scholar Faust, tempted into a contract with the Devil in return for a life of sensuality and power. Enjoyment rules, until Faust’s emotions are stirred by a meeting with Gretchen, and the tragic outcome brings Part 1 to an end. Part 2, written much later in Goethe’s life, places his eponymous hero in a variety of unexpected circumstances, causing him to reflect on humanity and its attitudes to life and death.
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Mixed Feelings
- De Kyle en 12-04-11
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Faust: Parts 1 & 2
- De: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Narrado por: Adriel Brandt
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Faust is a tragic play in two parts that reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant but disillusioned scholar who makes a deal with the devil. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's masterpiece and the greatest work of German literature. Part I sets out Faust’s despair, his pact with Mephistopheles, and his love for Gretchen. Part II deals with Faust’s life at court, the wooing and winning of Helen of Troy, and his purification and redemption.
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German Classic
- De J. E. Baker en 02-06-24
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Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Learned Musician
- De: Christoph Wolff
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
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Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship.
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Has all the boring details...
- De L. Jensen en 05-14-19
De: Christoph Wolff
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Bach's Musical Universe
- The Composer and His Work
- De: Christoph Wolff
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art.
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Italian Journey
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 18 h y 57 m
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Goethe was probably the greatest universal genius who ever lived. Although known primarily as a poet, playright, and novelist, he was also known for his work in anatomy, botany, color, art criticism, and jurisprudence. Many people are deterred from attempting to read anything by Goethe because of his extremely penetrating intelligence and dense prose. But his travel diary, Italian Journey, is by far easier to digest than anything else by him.
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Excellent unabridged version
- De Lena S. en 10-15-16
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Faust: Parts I & II
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Philippe Duquenoy
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Faust has long been considered one of the most important works of European literature ever published. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe began writing Faust in the 1770s while still a young man, spending most of his adult life on the project. Faust was finally finished almost 50 years later, near the end of his life. Faust is a philosophical drama full of humor, satire, and tragedy. The demon Mephistopheles makes a bet with God that he can lure Faust from the path of good.
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Wonderful Performance
- De David Sanders en 03-15-18
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Goethe
- Kunstwerk des Lebens
- De: Rüdiger Safranski
- Narrado por: Rüdiger Safranski, Frank Arnold
- Duración: 28 h y 16 m
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Ein neuer Blick auf Leben und Werk des letzten Universalgenies. Das Goethe-Hörbuch für unsere Zeit: Rüdiger Safranski führt uns Goethe in neuem Licht vor und macht uns zu Zeitgenossen dieses Genies und Menschen, dessen Lebensspanne das verspielte Rokoko, die klassisch-romantische Zeit und die Nüchternheit des Eisenbahnzeitalters umgreift. Mit seinem Namen hat man später eine ganze Epoche bezeichnet: die Goethezeit.
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A History of Christianity
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 28 h y 30 m
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First published in 1976, Paul Johnson's exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude. Weaving a great range of material, the scholar and author Johnson creates an ambitious panoramic overview of the evolution of the Western world since the founding of a little-known "Jesus sect".
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Read Brant Pitre's the case for Jesus instead.
- De Catherine BFT en 05-08-17
De: Paul Johnson
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 22 h y 57 m
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Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship was Goethe’s second novel, published 1795-6, almost two decades after The Sorrows of Young Werther. It again focuses on a young man but this time on his growing understanding and maturity as he makes his way in the world. As such, it is regarded as the founding work in the ‘coming of age’ genre: the ‘bildungsroman’ ( a term actually coined some 30 years later), which characterised a philosophical novel tracing the cultural, emotional and educational development of an individual from youth to adulthood.
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The ending
- De Angel Ddia en 03-23-24
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Irrational Man
- A Study in Existential Philosophy
- De: William Barrett
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists - Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The result is a marvelously lucid definition of existentialism and a brilliant interpretation of its impact.
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heady
- De A. Antine en 07-28-22
De: William Barrett
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In Defense of History
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of documentation to the critical application of social and economic theory, all employed with the aim of reconstructing a verifiable, usable past. Evans defends this commitment to historical knowledge from the attacks of postmodernist critics who deny the possibility of achieving any kind of certain knowledge about the past.
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Enlightening
- De David A en 07-03-18
De: Richard J. Evans
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Toscanini
- Musician of Conscience
- De: Harvey Sachs
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 40 h y 32 m
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During a 68-year career, conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) was famed for his fierce dedication, photographic memory, explosive temper, and impassioned performances. At various times he dominated La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the NBC Symphony, and the Bayreuth, Salzburg, and Lucerne festivals. His reforms influenced generations of musicians, and his opposition to Nazism and fascism made him a model for artists of conscience.
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Great book; unable to finish due to technical issu
- De BigWally en 06-25-19
De: Harvey Sachs
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Quantum
- Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
- De: Manjit Kumar
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
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Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren’t shocked by quantum theory, you don’t really understand it. For most people, quantum theory is synonymous with mysterious, impenetrable science. And in fact for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. In this tour de force of science history, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly written account of this fundamental scientific revolution.
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Biographic facts not explanations.
- De Terezia en 07-11-11
De: Manjit Kumar
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The Decline of the West
- Vol 1: Form and Actuality. Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
- De: Oswald Spengler
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 55 h y 52 m
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The Decline of the West - Volume 1 published in 1917, Volume 2 in 1922 - has exercised and challenged opinion ever since. It was a huge undertaking by Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), formerly an unpublished historian and philosopher who set out to radically reconsider history - the rise and fall of world civilisations and their cultures. His primary view was to reject the established Eurocentric paradigm (ancient/classical, Medieval - and, following the Renaissance - modern) and to take a totally new perspective.
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Stunningly deep work of philosophy
- De J. Martin en 05-16-21
De: Oswald Spengler
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This is an excellent biography and introduction to the philosophy and literary works of Goethe. It covers his whole life in considerable detail, making extensive quotations from his letters and journals. It is based on original research.
Safranksi does a good job also of summarizing the major philosophical themes and personal-historical context of Goethe's individual works—especially The Sorrows of Young Werther, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Roman Elegies, Hermann and Dorothea, and Faust—as well as the evolution of Goethe's overall philosophical thought.
I approached this book with very little prior knowledge of Goethe, but with a fair amount of background knowledge on philosophy and the trends in philosophy in the late 18th and early 19th century. This book's breadth, depth, and extensive quotations from the historical subject himself made the book accessible for a non-expert in Goethe like myself without ever feeling pedantic. Some background knowledge of Enlightenment philosophy is probably a good idea before reading this book, however. Nadler's "A Book Forged in Hell" (about Baruch Spinoza) would be helpful background. As Goethe was heavily influenced by Spinoza's thought, it would help considerably to have some background knowledge of Spinoza before reading this book.
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Superb account which I wish I’d read when majoring in German at U of Dayton❗️So remarkable his English translations of Goethe’s poems that they appeared to have been originally written in English. I always admired him. Now I have more motivations to do so👍
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- 12-19-23
good but
read in a regular rhythm.. which is good sometimes but sometimes a little slower would be nice, where the material is more thiughtful. this is an issue with a lot of readers
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- Daniel Dolin
- 03-01-24
A joy from start to finish
There is so much to enjoy in this biography. Despite its length it really ticks along, and complex philosophical, literary, and political ideas are seamlessly interwoven into the narrative through Safranski's elegant syntheses. Particularly commendable in that regard are the chapters where the author pauses to review the guiding ideas and concerns of Goethe at each moment in his life.
And, as others have said, the translation is really a tremendous achievement in itself. Goethe's lyric poems sing here, as if they were originally written in English. One of the pleasures of reading the book is to be able to to experience so much of the poetry, with the primacy and freshness that Dollenmayer's translation gives it, put it the context of the life events that gave rise to it—the liveliness of the language really gives a sense of Goethe's personality and charisma.
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- PublicProfileName420
- 02-10-23
Amazing
One of the greatest biographies I’ve listens to, about one of the greatest men in all of human history, a true artist.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-01-22
A litterary giant
Another well made book, another great biography and life.
Goethe's life story has been a fascinating read. He is said to be the INFJ personality type, and we would share this trait in that case. If that however counts for much, I cannot say, but I do sense that the man has struggled with something akin to bipolar disorder, or another affliction of the sort - throughout his life. And this is a common experience in the INFJ condition. He certainly dances with melancholy and the sublime intermittantly
I take with me a plethora of intruiging thoughts and quotes from this book, to help me in my own work as I strive toward my own theories. After all, the man is a litterary "genius".
I am also greatly inspired to read the mans written works, as they are portrayed in the book quite interestingly. No doubt they contain within them some imeasurable value.
For anyone interested in the human experience, and to learn about all sides of it from different parts of history, I recommend this biography.
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- Scott Free
- 07-21-21
To many unspoken important details left out
Goethe's involvement with secret societies completely missing from biography. Instead long discussion of his feelings.
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- tpritch
- 07-06-19
Academic
This is a heavy tome about a complex individual, geared toward the academic community over general readership. Monotonous narration did not lighten matters.
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