Excerpt from Goethes Egmont: Edited With Introduction and Notes Written many years after the events it describes, this account may not be entirely reliable. He refers to the play as already worked out in his head in Sept. 1775, and intimations to friends seem to imply that he had thought of the subject as early as 1773 or 1774. But many other plans divided his attention, and his love for Lili soon so occupied him that any definite choice of the theme and any real work on the play was delayed till the autumn of 1775; it is, more over, his own soul-struggle of that eventful time which he has embodied in his hero. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.