JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) was a novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and scientist. He wroteThe Sorrows of Young Wertherwhen he was just twenty-four. His enduring dramatic poemFaust took fifty-seven years to write and was published in its entirety only after Goethe's death at eighty...

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) was a novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and scientist. He wroteThe Sorrows of Young Wertherwhen he was just twenty-four. His enduring dramatic poemFaust took fifty-seven years to write and was published in its entirety only after Goethe's death at eighty-three.