Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

Goethe: Life as a Work of Art (Liveright) is the first biography in a generation to tell the story of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Drawing upon the trove of letters, diaries, and notebooks Goethe left behind, Goethe tells a rich tale of Europe in the throes of revolution and the man whose ideas heralded a new era.