Penguin Classics

"The Penguin Classics book, which was requested when I posted about this on the subreddit last week."

"I recommend the Penguin Classics version with a introduction by Michael Hulse, if anything because he describes both Goethe's personal history with the story and work and also his later views on how one should interpret the work."

"they have a whole section, like a quarter of the display, of penguin classics and they aren't like pride and prejudice, 1984, etc. but stuff I've mostly never heard of, mostly 20th century european fiction - I bought a novella called after midnight that sounds sick - and like bonjour tristesse, mish"