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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author),
David Constantine (Author)
Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany’s literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters with the monstrous consequences of repressing what little “real life” they have in themselves, a life so far removed from their natural states that it appears to them as something terrible and destructive.
About the Series:For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much of Pages: 272Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.6 x 5 INPublication Date: December 15, 2008
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