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Steven Y Wilkerson, A Most Mysterious Union: The Role of Alchemy in Goethe's Faust. Asheville, NC: Chiron, 2019. 386 pp.
This is a very introductory book. The author's choice to write an introduction has yielded a study with the predictable strengths and weaknesses. There is much to recommend this book to beginners, either with Goethe, with alchemy, with Jung, or with all three. It is for the most part intelligent and lucidly written. It begins with a capsule biography of Goethe, then proceeds logically to an introduction to alchemy, to a short biography of Jung, to the...