For 10 points, name this German author of The Sorrows of Young Werther, who wrote about Mephistopheles's manipulation of Faust.
This author wrote the "Venetian Epigrams" and the "Roman Elegies" and in two novels, described the "Journeyman Years" and "Apprenticeship" of Wilhelm Meister. In one work by this author, the title resident of Wahlheim falls for a woman engaged to the much older Albert, whose two pistols he later borrows to kill himself. In another novel by this author, a sleeping potion dispatches Gretchen's mother and a poodle transforms into a character who makes the title character sign a contract with a drop of blood. For 10 points, name this German author of The Sorrows of Young Werther, who wrote about Mephistopheles's manipulation of Faust.
This author wrote the "Venetian Epigrams" and the "Roman Elegies" and in two novels, described the "Journeyman Years" and "Apprenticeship" of Wilhelm Meister.
Johann Wolfgang von {Goethe} (GERR-tuh)