The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage (Hesperus Classics) - Tapa blanda

In ?The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage,” a man’s passion for a woman is shared?rather inconveniently?by his son, and both declare themselves her suitors. The woman struggles to escape their pursuits by implying a rather indelicate state of affairs. Her ploy works, and the resultant chaos and confusion for father and son create a brilliantly comic ending. Also included are ?Who is the Betrayer?” in which a man’s nocturnal monologues reveal rather more than he would wish, and a third tale where erotic infidelity and inadvertent revelation are shown to go hand in hand.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749?1832) is widely considered the founder of modern German literature. His best-known literary works include Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther. Andrew Piper translated Goethe's The Man of Fifty.