Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit [From my Life: Fiction and Truth] (German)
Title
Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit [From my Life: Fiction and Truth] (German)
Text Read
Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit [From my Life: Fiction and Truth] (German)
Author
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Original Source
Stuttgart & Tübingen: Cotta, 1848
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HathiTrust
Publication Date
1848
Date(s) of Reading
- 1854-12-[28]
Evidence
"Thursday. Translated passages from the Kestner letters. It was a lovely morning and we enjoyed walking 2 hours, first in the Thiergarten and afterwards in the town. As we were coming in we met Stahr and Fanny Lewald who had been calling on us and we agreed to go to see them tomorrow evening. Read at dinner Goethe's account ofhis relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Wahrheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's Studies of Shakspeare. Twaddling in the extreme." Diary 1854-1861 40
Citation
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit [From my Life: Fiction and Truth] (German), George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57525
