The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage
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.
FictionClassicsShort Stories (single author)Family Life
RELEASED2010
PUBLISHERHesperus Classics
LENGTH72
LANGUAGEEN
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, pantheism, and science. His magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. <sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage
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.
FictionClassicsShort Stories (single author)Family Life
RELEASED2010
PUBLISHERHesperus Classics
LENGTH72
LANGUAGEEN
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, pantheism, and science. His magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. <sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
