Goethe, Schiller, and Their Contemporaries

"Goethe, Schiller and Their Contemporaries" includes works by Brentano, Buchner, Kleist, Lessing Lenz, Hoffman, and Wieland, many in German, and many in English translation. Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), contains the full text of 149 books.

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Clemens Brentano (1778-1842)

• Aus der Chronika eines fahrenden Schulers
• Die Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem Schoenen Annerl
• Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia
• Die Mehreren Wehmueller und ungarischen Nationalgesichter
• Die Drei Nusse
• Romanzen von Rosenkranz

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Georg Buchner (1813-1837)

• Dantons Tod
• Woyzeck

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Die Aufgeregten, play, in German
Autobiography, in English
Belagerung von Mainz
Briefe aus der Sweiz
Egmont, a tragedy in five acts

• translated to English by Anna Swanwick
• in German

Faust

• Part 1, in English
• Part 1, in German
• Part 2, in German
• translated by Charles Brooks
• translated by Bayard Taylor
• Untersuchungen ueber Goethes Faust edited by J. Collin
• The Faust-Legend and Goethe's Faust by H.B. Cotterill

Die Geschwister
Goetz von Berlichingen
Hermann and Dorothea

• translated to English by Ellen Frothingham
• in German

Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by Anna Swanwick
Iphigenie in Tauris, in German

Italienische Reise

• Part 1, in German
• Part 2, in German

Kampagne in Frankreich
Die Laune des Verliebten, one-act play, in German
De Leiden des Jungen Werther or The Sorrows of Young Werther

• translated to English by Thomas Carlyle and R.D. Boylan, Edited by Nathen Haskell Dole
• Part 1, in German
• Part 2, in German

Die Mitschuldigen
Die Naturliche Tochter, in German
Novelle, in German
Poems, translated to English by Edgar Alfred Bowring
Prometheus, play, in German without accents
Reineke Fuchs
Roemische Elegien

• in English (entitled Erotica Romana)
• in German

Satyros, in German
Torquato Tasso, in German
Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten
Venetische Epigramme
Wahlverwandschaften
West-oestlicher Divan
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, in German

• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• volume 6
• volume 7
• volume 8

Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre

• volume 1, in German with accents
• volume 2, in German with accents
• volume 3, in German with accents

about Goethe

• Goethe's Biographie, in German, by Dr. H. Doering
• Ueber Goethes Hermann und Dorothea
• The Youth of Goethe by P. Hume Brown

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E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)

• The Cremona Violin (short)
• Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober, in German without accents
• Nachstuecke, in German

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Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)

• Ausgewaehlte Schriften
• Das Kaethchen von Heilbronn
• Penthesilea
• Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
• Der zerbrochene Krug

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Jacob Lenz (1751-1792)

• Der Englander
• Der Hofmeister
• Der Landprediger
• Die Soldaten
• Der Waldbruder
• Zerbin

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Gotthold Lessing (1729-1781)

• Abhandlungen ueber die Fabel, without accents
• Ausgewahlte Fabeln (1759)
• Ausgewahlte Gedichte
• Emilia Galotti, play
• Die Erziehung des Menschengechlechts
• Fabeln und Erzahlungen
• Der Freigeist (1749)
• Gesprache fur Freimauer
• Hamburgische Dramaturgie
• Die Juden, play (1749)
• Der Junge Gelehrte, play (1747)
• Laokoon
• Lieder
• Minna von Barnhelm, 1767
• Miss Sara Simpson, play
• Nathan der Weise (Nathan the Wise), play,
• in German without accents
• translated to English by William Taylor of Norwich
• Oden
• Philotas, play

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Ferdinand Raimund (1790-1836)

• Der Alpenkonig und der Menschenfeind
• Der Barometermacher auf der Zauberinsel
• Der Diamant des Geisterkoenigs (play)
• Die gefesselte Phatasie
• Das Maedchen aus der Feenwelt
• Moisasurs Zauberfluch
• Die Unheilbringende Krone
• Verschwender

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Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)

• Aesthetic and Philosophial Essays
• Die Braut von Messina
• The Bride of Messina (in English)
• The Camp of Wallenstein (in English) translated by James Churchill
• The Death of Wallenstein (in English) translated by S.T. Coleridge
• Demetrius (in English)
• Don Carlos (in English)
• Einige gedichte
• Fiesco (in English)
• The Ghost-Seer and the Sport of Destiny
• The History of the Revolt of the Netherlands
• The History of the Thirty Years' War, translated to English by Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A.
• Kabale und Liebe
• Love and Intrigue (in English)
• The Maid of Orleans (in English)
• Mary Stuart (in English)
• Der Neffe als Onkel
• Der Parasit
• Philosophical Letters
• The Piccolomini (in English) translated by S.T. Coleridge
• Poems of the First Period
• Poems of the Second Period
• Poems of the Third Period
• The Robbers (in English)
• Suppressed Poems
• Turandot, Prinzessin von China
• Turandot: the Chinese sphinx, a dramatic oddity freely translated by Sabilla Novello
• Die Verschwoerung des Fiesco zu Genua
• Wallensteins Lager
• Wilhelm Tell, translated to English by Theodore Martin
• Wilhelm Tell, another translation
• about Schiller
• The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
• Schiller's Biographie by D. H. Doering

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August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845)

• Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

see also Shakespeare in German translation

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) (in German translation)

• Coriolanus, translated by Dorothea Tieck
• Hamlet translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Die Irrungen (Comedy of Errors), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Der Kaufmann von Venedig (The Merchant of Venice), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
• Johannisnachts Traum (A Midsummer Night's Dream), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Julius Caesar translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
• Das Leben und der Tod des Königs Lear (King Lear), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Maass für Maass (Measure for Measure) , translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Macbeth, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Othello, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Richard II, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Richard III, translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
• Romeo und Julia (Romeo and Juliet), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
• Romeo und Juliette (Romeo and Juliet), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night's Dream), translated by Wilhelm von Schlegel
• Der Sturm (The Tempest), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Timon von Athen (Timon of Athens), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Was Ihr Wollt (As You Like It), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Wie es euch gefaellt (As You Like It), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

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Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813)

• Geschichte des Agathon, in German
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Oberon, in German

see also Shakespeare in German translation
• about Wieland
• Christoph Martin Wieland's Biographie by H. Doering, in German