Memoirs of a Good-for-nothing (Oneworld Classics) - Softcover

Joseph Von Eichendorff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847490824 ISBN 13: 9781847490827

Publisher: Oneworld Classics Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Eichendorff's prose masterpiece - a picaresque account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his father, and who eventually finds love with the girl of his dreams - is one of the best-known classics of German literature. Deeply imbued with the style and sentiment of German Romanticism, and philosophical and poetic in its approach to nature and existence, "Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing" is at once an exhilarating romp and an exemplary distillation of nineteenth-century thought.

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Review:

"Eichendorff breathes the purity of the fairy tale and the folk song . . . a blithe and happy symbol, touching in his modesty, of a true humanity, a cultured, Romantic humanity." Thomas Mann"

About the Author:

Joseph von Eichendorff (17881857) is best known for his Romantic poetry and prose tales. Ronald Taylor isa scholar and authorwho specializes in German intellectual history."

About this edition

• Publisher: Oneworld Classics Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1847490824
• ISBN 13: 9781847490827
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128