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William Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels (Vol. 1)

The first volume of "William Meister''s Apprenticeship and Travels" was translated from the original German by Thomas Carlyle.

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Goethe studied law at Liepzig University, and also studied drawing. In 1788 he began living with Christine Vulpius, whom he would marry in 1806. She died in 1816, and the couple had one son. Goethe practiced law briefly, then devoted himself to writing, although he remained active in political affairs, and spent over 10 years at the court of Duke Karl August of Weimar, who became his close friend. After his early contributions to European romanticism, which culminated in his confessional novel, "The Sorrows of Young Werther", Goethe and his close friend Schiller made a conscientious attempt to create a "classical" German literature in the areas of lyric poetry, drama, and prose fiction. His 1824 novel, "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship", is the prototype of the Bild?ngsroman, the form which many important German writers, from Mann to Grass, were to embrace in later years. Goethe is considered the dominant figure in the history of German literature. His last words were, "More light!"