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“I put it on my list because, first of all, it’s an incredible achievement. If you want to understand Goethe, this is the book to go back to again and again. I also choose it because Goethe was a fascinating man. He is one of the greatest poets, but he was also a scientist. He lived a very long and full life. He was a privy councillor in the state of Saxe-Weimar. He ran the theatre, he was in charge of the mines and he met a great many interesting people. So you have politics, you have science, you have theatre, you have literature, you have geology, you have 18th century society.” Read more...
The Best Biographies of 18th-Century Figures
Andrea Wulf, Historian
