Visit the Goethe page on Germany's Projekt Gutenberg website and read selected texts in German here, or

Visit the Goethe page on the US Project Gutenberg website and read selected texts in English or German here.

Selected Works:

Götz und Berlichingen, 1773 - Iron Hand
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, 1774 - The Sorrows of Young Werther
Iphigenie auf Tauris, 1787 - Iphigenia in Tauris
Egmont, 1788
Römische Elegien, 1790 - Roman Elegies
Faust, ein Fragment, 1790
Torquato Tasso, 1790
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, 1796 - Wilhelm Meister´s Apprenticeship
Hermann und Dorothea, 1797
Faust I, 1808
Der Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809 - Elective Affinities
Zur Farbenlehre, 1810
Italianische Reise I-II, 1816-17 - The Italian Journey
West-östlicher Divan, 1819 - Divan of West and East
Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, 1821 - Wilhelm Meister´s Travels
Faust II, 1832
Aus meinem Leben Dichtung und Wahrheit, 1811-33 - Poetry and Truth

Collected works editions:

Werke (1887-1919, 143 vols.)
Werke (1948-64, 14 vols.)
Gedenkausgabe der Werke, Briefe und Gespräche (1948-71, 27 vols.)
Collected Works (1983-89, 12 vols.)

Criticism and Biography:

Armine, Frederick, Francis J. Zucker, and Harvey Wheeler, eds. Goethe and the sciences: a reappraisal. Boston: D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1987.
Burckhardt, Sigurd. The drama of language: essays on Goethe and Kleist. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1970.
Bidney, Martin. Blake and Goethe: psychology, ontology, imagination. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988.
Bishop, Paul. A companion to Goethe's Faust: parts I and II. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2001.
Boyle, Nicholas. Goethe: the poet and the Age. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Brown, Jane K. Faust: Theatre of the world. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992.
Butler, E. M. Byron and Goethe: analysis of a passion. London: Bowes & Bowes, 1956.
Durrani, Osman. Goethe and the Bible: a study of Goethe?s use of scriptural allusions and Christian religious motifs in Faust I and II. Las Vegas: Peter Lang, 1977.
Eissler, K. R. Goethe: a psychoanalytic study. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963.
Gray, Ronald D. Goethe: a critical introduction. London: Cambridge U.P., 1967.
Hammer, Carl. Goethe and Rousseau: resonances of the mind. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1973.
John, David Gethin. Images of Goethe through Schiller's Egmont. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998.
Kostovski, Ilja. Dostoevsky and Goethe: two devils, two geniuses: a study of the demonic in their work. New York: Revisionist Press, 1974.
Lange, Victor. Goethe: a collection of critical essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.
Lukacs, Gyorgy. Goethe and his age. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1969.
Miller, R.D. The drama of Goethe. Harrogate (Yorks.): Duchy P., 1966.
Pelikan, Jaroslav Jan. Faust the theologian. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Stewart, Walter K. Time structure in drama: Goethe's Sturm und Drang plays. Amsterdam: Rodolpi, 1978.
Uberoi, J. P. Singh. The other mind of Europe: Goethe as a scientist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Van Abbe, Derek. Goethe: new perspectives on a writer and his time. London: Allen and Unwin, 1972.
Wagner, Irmgard. Goethe. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1999.
Weinberg, Kurt. The figure of Faust in Valéry and Goethe: an exegesis of Mon Faust. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976.
Whitton, Kenneth S. Goethe and Schubert: the unseen bond. Portland: Amadeus Press, 1999.
Williams, John R. Goethe's Faust. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987.