From My Life Poetry and Truth, Parts 1-3 (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 4)

Covering the period from his birth in 1749 to his departure for Weimar in 1775, in Poetry and Truth Goethe recalls his childhood and youth as the son of well-to-do, middle-class parents, his education and literary awakening, early loves, and the creation and reception of works from his Sturm und Dra...