Top Items About Goethe
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Trivia | Elderly Accomplishments | Cervantes completed Don Quixote when he was nearly 70 years old. Goethe finished Faust when he was 82. Verdi... | root | 263 | |
| Anecdotes | Sam Waksal: Amazon Wish List | In 2003, ImClone founder Sam Waksal began serving a seven-year-and-three-month term at the Schuylkill correctional... | Anonymous | 52 | |
| Anecdotes | Child Prodigy | In 1724, the King of Denmark had Christian Heinrich Heinecken brought to Copenhagen in order to see the German genius... | Anonymous | 23 | |
| Anecdotes | Busy Woman | As Goethe`s mother lay on her deathbed, a servant girl arrived with an invitation to a party. "Say that Frau Goethe is... | Anonymous | 16 | |
| Anecdotes | Hollywood Agent | Ignorance of the great classics was widespread during Hollywood`s Golden Age. One producer tried to hire Goethe... | Anonymous | 15 | |
| Anecdotes | Footnote | A new edition of Goethe`s autobiography once appeared with annotations by a noted German scholar. After Goethe`s confession... | Anonymous | 12 | |
| Anecdotes | Faustian Bargain? | Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet cultivated a first-rate musical rivalry. "I`ve bested you," Gounod once told his colleauge. | Anonymous | 11 | |
| Anecdotes | Goethe`s Last Words | During Goethe`s final years a disciple, Johann Peter Eckermann, was employed to document his conversations. Eckermann... | Anonymous | 9 | |
| Anecdotes | Immortal Words | In 1830, Goethe`s disolute son, August, the source of considerable grief, died in Rome. "I was not unaware," Goethe... | Anonymous | 8 | |
| Anecdotes | Modest Geothe | "When two such come together as I and Goethe," Beethoven once declared, "great lords must note what it is that passes... | Anonymous | 7 |
