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The book is divided into four parts, the first three of which were written and published between 1811 and 1814, while the fourth was written mainly in 1830–31 and published in 1833. Each part contains five books. The whole covers the first 26 years of its author's life. Goethe held that "the most
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to send him the notes that she had written down about his youth on the basis of meetings she had had with his mother out of a related interest. When
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revealed the relations between them and the individual. As an artist, he did not feel bound to facts for their own sake, but selected those that were of significance and moulded them so that they might become parts of a work of art.
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