Stanley Corngold

Stanley Corngold is a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at Princeton University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His highly acclaimed translations include Kafka's Selected Stories. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Stanley Corngold

Stanley Corngold is a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at Princeton University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His highly acclaimed translations include Kafka's Selected Stories. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Books by Stanley Corngold

  • The Sufferings of Young Werther: A Norton Critical Edition

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stanley Corngold

    First Edition, Paperback, 2012

    “Corngold’s new translation is of the very highest quality, punctiliously faithful to Goethe’s German and sensitive to gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first novel.”
    —J. M....
  • The Sufferings of Young Werther: A New Translation by Stanley Corngold

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stanley Corngold

    Hardback, 2012

    “Stanley Corngold’s translation is a triumph. This is a glorious achievement, a Werther for the ages.”—Christopher Prendergast
  • The Sufferings of Young Werther: A New Translation

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stanley Corngold

    Paperback, 2013

    "A highly readable, sensitive, and lively Werther. Corngold is both faithful to the German and true to the demands of a modern English text" —Jeremy Adler, Times Literary Supplement
  • Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition

    Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold

    First Edition, Paperback, 2006

    In 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to his—Kafka is the representative of the twentieth century, the poet who gives it its voice....
  • The Sufferings of Young Werther: A New Translation

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stanley Corngold

    E Book, 2012

    "A highly readable, sensitive, and lively Werther. Corngold is both faithful to the German and true to the demands of a modern English text" —Jeremy Adler, Times Literary Supplement