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The Autobiography of Goethe Truth and Poetry

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

28 chapters, about 241,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. ADVERTISEMENT. 100 words
2. AUTHOR'S PREFACE 1,200 words
3. FIRST BOOK. 11,600 words
4. SECOND BOOK. 1,700 words
5. A BOY'S LEGEND. 10,400 words
6. THIRD BOOK. 9,000 words
7. FOURTH BOOK. 16,100 words
8. FIFTH BOOK. 16,100 words
9. SIXTH BOOK. 12,700 words
10. SEVENTH BOOK. 15,900 words
11. EIGHTH BOOK. 14,100 words
12. NINTH BOOK 13,300 words
13. TENTH BOOK. 15,200 words
14. ELEVENTH BOOK. 18,500 words
15. TWELFTH BOOK 16,300 words
16. THIRTEENTH BOOK. 11,800 words
17. FOURTEENTH BOOK. 10,400 words
18. FIFTEENTH BOOK. 4,200 words
19. B. 5,800 words
20. SIXTEENTH BOOK. 5,600 words
21. SEVENTEENTH BOOK. 2,800 words
22. "SHE COMES NOT!" 6,000 words
23. EIGHTEENTH BOOK. 9,200 words
24. NINETEENTH BOOK. 4,300 words
25. FIRST, OF THE YOUNGER. 600 words
26. DESCRIPTION OF THE ELDER STOLBERG. 2,300 words
27. TWENTIETH BOOK. 5,300 words
28. END OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Isaac
• Jacob
• Modern language
• Suicide (Durkheim book)
• Theatre

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