Wilhelm Meister

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Description: <p><strong>Wilhelm Meister</strong> (German: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre) is the German author's second novel, published in 1795-96.</p> <p>While his first novel, <strong>The Sorrows of Young Werther</strong>, presented a hero driven to suicide by despair, the eponymous hero of this novel travels a path of self-realization.</p> <p>The story centers on Wilhelm's attempt to escape from what he sees as the empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theater, Wilhelm commits himself to the mysterious Tower Society, composed of great aristocrats.</p> <p>Other books that have used a similar scheme to this novel have been called Bildungsroman ("novels of formation"), although Wilhelm's "Bildung" ("education" or "formation of character") is ironized by the narrator in numerous passages.</p>

Pages: 434

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