The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1

LibriVox recording of The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (Translated by John Oxenford.) Read in English by Barbara Baker; Craig Campbell; awest; Expatriate; and Rory Haye. This Autobiography of Goethe has a lengthy introduction and short biography of Goethe's life by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and was translated by John Oxenford (1812-1877) in 1848, which was a year of revolutions in Europe. Johann Goethe was a literary celebrity by the age of 25 and was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Carl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November o