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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
15 hours 32 minutes
ISBN
9781802566840
Published
23 June 2025
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • bildungsroman
  • coming of age
  • German literature
  • theater
  • personal growth
  • identity
  • vocation
  • Romanticism
  • self-discovery
  • philosophical novel

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Description

Wilhelm leaves the counting-house for the stage, chasing love, art, and a self that will not stay small. Troupes, mentors, and hard lessons school him. Spoken as a young man’s long apprenticeship in becoming someone worth the journey.

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) stands among the supreme figures of world literature — a poet, playwright, novelist, and thinker whose influence reaches far beyond Germany. With Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship he helped invent the Bildungsroman, the novel of education and self-formation that shaped European fiction from Dickens to Joyce.

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