title: Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  # AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GOETHE
  
  
  ### TRUTH AND POETRY RELATING TO MY LIFE
  
  
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  ## JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
  
   _Translated by_
  
  ## JOHN OXENFORD
  
  
  
  
  
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  _Autobiography of Goethe_  
  
  
  _Truth and Poetry Relating to My Life_  
  
  
  From an 1848 edition  
  
  
  ISBN 978-1-62011-735-4  
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  
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  _[Introduction](16_split_003.html#toc0)_  
  
  
  _[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](16_split_004.html#toc1)_  
  
  
  _[Author's Preface](16_split_005.html#toc2)_  
  
  
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