Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (The Heritage Press)

xxvii, 567 pp. The Thomas Carlyle Translation. With a new Introduction by Franz Schoenberner and illustrations by William Sharp. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape what he views as the empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theater, Wilhelm commits himself to the mysterious Tower Society.--Wikipedia