Dictations Michael Stephen Schiro It is an authentic study

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Dictations Michael Stephen Schiro It is an authentic studyOne of the most influential of Goethe's works is one he didn't write but dictated to a young companion. Four years after his death at the age of eighty three, the great poet spoke again from beyond the grave in Conversations with Eckermann, Johann Peter Eckermann's account of his time with Goethe in the last years of his life. Proclaimed by Nietzsche to be ''the best German book,'' Conversations with Eckermann contains Goethe's last thoughts about