{"product_id":"wilhelm-meisters-apprenticeship-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-goethe-the-collected-works-vol-9-9780691043449","title":"Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Goethe: The Collected Works  Vol. 9)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn authoritative English translation of one of the most important works in the history of the novel  Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship (17951796)  Goethes second novel  is a foundational work in the history of the genreperhaps the first Bildungsroman  a coming-of-age story focusing on the growth and self-realization of the main character. The story centers on Wilhelm  a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free from the restrictive bourgeois world of his upbringing and seek fulfillment as an actor and playwright. Goethes novel had a huge impact on the Romantics. Hegel  Schelling  Novalis  and Schopenhauer considered it one of the most important novels yet written. Schlegel famously called it one of the three tendencies of the age  along with the French Revolution and the philosophy of Fichte. And Beethoven  Schubert  and Schumann composed songs to poems from the novel. It also had a major influence on nineteenth-century British writers  including Thomas Carlyle  who was its first English translator  and George Eliot. Drawn from Princetons authoritative collected works of Goethe  this is the definitive English version of a landmark of world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647609462837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691043442","price":33.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691043449.jpg?v=1781695510","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wilhelm-meisters-apprenticeship-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-goethe-the-collected-works-vol-9-9780691043449","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}