Atractive set with gilt tooled leather spines, red and gilt spine labels and marbled boards. All edges are red.
The first English edition of Goethe's novel, translated by Thomas Carlyle. It is complete in three volumes.
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (German: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre) is the second novel by Goethe, published in 1795. While his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, featured a hero driven to suicide by despair, the eponymous hero of this novel undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape what he views as the empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theater, Wilhelm commits himself to the mysterious Tower Society comprised of enlightened aristocrats who will guide him towards his true calling.
The novel contains within it what is considered one of the "classic" analyses of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Further books patterned after this novel have been called Bildungsromane ("novels of formation"), despite the fact that Wilhelm's "Bildung" is ironized by the narrator at many points.
Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre ("Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years"), the sequel, was Goethe's fourth and last novel. Its first edition appeared in 1821, and substantially reworked second edition in 1829.
CONDITION
The bindings are tight and firm and all ocvers are firmly attached. The front inner hinges are strained but holding. There is some mild wear to the extremities including some slight rubbing to the edges and corners. There is very small cracks in the leather on the spine labels of volume I and small chips with slight loss to the edges of the same spine spine labels. Internally the books are generally celan and bright apart from some occasional mild spots mainly to the end papers. Lacks half titles. Overall the books are in near fine condition.
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