Top Items About Goethe

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TriviaElderly Accomplishments

Cervantes completed Don Quixote when he was nearly 70 years old. Goethe finished Faust when he was 82. Verdi...

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AnecdotesSam Waksal: Amazon Wish List

In 2003, ImClone founder Sam Waksal began serving a seven-year-and-three-month term at the Schuylkill correctional...

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AnecdotesChild Prodigy

In 1724, the King of Denmark had Christian Heinrich Heinecken brought to Copenhagen in order to see the German genius...

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AnecdotesBusy Woman

As Goethe`s mother lay on her deathbed, a servant girl arrived with an invitation to a party. "Say that Frau Goethe is...

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AnecdotesHollywood Agent

Ignorance of the great classics was widespread during Hollywood`s Golden Age. One producer tried to hire Goethe...

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AnecdotesFootnote

A new edition of Goethe`s autobiography once appeared with annotations by a noted German scholar. After Goethe`s confession...

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AnecdotesFaustian Bargain?

Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet cultivated a first-rate musical rivalry. "I`ve bested you," Gounod once told his colleauge.

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AnecdotesGoethe`s Last Words

During Goethe`s final years a disciple, Johann Peter Eckermann, was employed to document his conversations. Eckermann...

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AnecdotesImmortal Words

In 1830, Goethe`s disolute son, August, the source of considerable grief, died in Rome. "I was not unaware," Goethe...

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AnecdotesModest Geothe

"When two such come together as I and Goethe," Beethoven once declared, "great lords must note what it is that passes...

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