Hesperus Classics: The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage (Paperback)

from greeniezona

Pleasantly surprised by The Sorrows of Young Werther, I was eager to move on and also explore this collection of (the inside cover calls them novellas? But they seem too short. Novellettes?) Only to find what expectations had held me back from reading Goethe in the first place 00 the passage of t...

from Koen1

The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage bevat drie korte verhalen van Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Het zijn verhalen uit zijn Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. Ik kreeg het boek via de Early Reviewersservice van Librarything. Gegroepeerd rond het centrale thema "verraad" is het wel een aardig idee ...

from HonourableHusband

An intriguing idea lies behind this slim volume. Goethe's last novel, Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, is a picaresque in which father and son wander for a year, never staying more than three days in a single spot. In the course of it, they hear a number of tales-fables, parables, gossip, call them ...

from Distance

The three stories brought together here by Hesperus Classics offer an interesting glimpse of Goethe's lesser-known work, dabbling with love and relationships in a cheerful, comical, and yet refined way. The last story, Not Too Far!, is the least interesting because of the viewpoint. There is an e...

from melomaan

This book contains three short stories: The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage, Who is the Traitor? and Not Too Far. It is well translated by Jonathan Katz and Andrew Piper. They managed to find the right words for keeping the atmosphere of the original writing from Goethe from the early 19th century. The ...