Faust, Part One
A restless scholar bets his soul against one perfect moment, then ruins an innocent girl in Goethe's 1808 verse tragedy.
2,568-word summary · 11 min read
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Summaries of books by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
A young artist writes letters about his love for Lotte, promised to another, until feeling turns fatal in Goethe's 1774 classic.
2,934-word summary · 13 min read