Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fiction Literary Classics

<p><strong>Since the year 1795 when it first appeared at Berlin numerous editions of Meister have been printed:</strong> critics of all ranks and some of them dissenting widely from its doctrines have loaded it with encomiums; its songs and poems are familiar to every German ear; the people read it and speak of it with an admiration approaching in many cases to enthusiasm. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape what he views as the empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theater Wilhelm commits himself to the mysterious Tower Society.</p>