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Authors: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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*
The pun vanishes in translation:
Scheidung
= divorce,
Scheidekünstler
= analytical chemist.
*
The ‘nymph of the hall’, a character in Ferdinand Kauer’s Viennese operetta
Das Donauweibchen
, which was produced at Weimar.
*
Derogatory nickname applied to themselves by Parisian dandies of the Directory period.
*
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), naturalist, greatly admired by Goethe, of whom he became a close friend.
Table of Contents
PART ONE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
PART TWO
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER FOUR
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CHAPTER SEVEN
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