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Johann Peter Eckermann : Conversations with Goethe

Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:

'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the deaths of her brother and two sisters] [...] I am beginning to read Eckermann's "Goethe" &mdash: it promises to be a most interesting work. Honest, simple, single-minded Eckermann! Great, powerful, giant-souled, but also profoundly egotistical, old Johann Wolfgang von Goethe!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Book

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