Goethe's Faust, 1862.

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Goethe's Faust, 1862.

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Hittell's essay on Faust, dated May 1862, San Francisco, [Calif.], handwritten on ruled paper, with numerous corrections and additions. Hittell's topic sentence suggests that Faust is the most remarkable and greatest of literary productions, and he describes the work as he explores his thesis.

1 v. (47 p.) ; 26 cm.

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Hittell, Theodore Henry, 1830-1917

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Hittell was a historian, journalist, and lawyer, of Calif. From the description of Theodore Henry Hittell miscellany, 1857-1917. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122642464 Theodore Henry Hittell was an American author and lawyer. Born in Pennsylvania, he moved to Ohio to attend college, and then followed his brother John to California. He worked as a journalist, practised law, and published several books, including a history of California. Fro...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. August 29, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt-d. March 22, 1832, Weimar) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural scientist. He is often ranked with Shakespeare and Dante as one of the three most important poets in history. Goethe gained early fame with The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, but his most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts....