GOETHE Wilhelm MEISTER's APPRENTICESHIP

GOETHE WiLHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP

GOETHE

SELECTED POEMS FAUST I & II ESSAYS ON ART AND LITERATURE FROM MY LIFE: POETRY AND TRUTH (PARTS ONE TO THREE) FROM MY LIFE: CAMPAIGN IN FRANCE 1792 • SIEGE OF MAINZ (PART FOUR) ITALIAN JOURNEY EARLY VERSE DRAMA AND PROSE PLAYS VERSE PLAYS AND EPIC WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP CONVERSATIONS OF GERMAN REFUGEES & WILHELM MEISTER'S JOURNEYMAN YEAR OR THE RENUNCIANTS THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER • ELECTIVE AFFINITIES • NOVELLA SCIENTIFIC STUDIES

Collected Works in 12 Volumes EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL BOARD Victor Lange, Princeton University Eric Blackall, Cornell University Cyrus Hamlin, Yale University

Goethe's Collected Works, Volume 9 Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Edited and Translated by Eric A. Blackall in cooperation with Victor Lange

Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom by Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 1989 Suhrkamp Publishers, New York, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. [Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre. English] Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; edited and translated by Eric A. Blackall in cooperation with Victor Lange. p. cm. -- (Princeton paperbacks) Originally published: New York : Suhrkamp, 1989. (Goethe's collected works ; v. 9 ISBN 0-691-04344-2 I. Blackall, Eric A. (Eric Albert) II. Lange, Victor, 1908-. III. Title. IV. Series: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Works. English. 1994; v. 9 PT2026.A1C94 1994 Vol. 9 [PT2027.W5]

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First Princeton Paperback printing, 1995

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