"The Sorrows of Young Werther" is a tragic story written by literary genius Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. First published in 1774, it is the story of a sensitive young man who is in love with a married woman who rejects him. Goethe has brilliantly captured the poignancy and destructive effects of unrequited love. Heart-rending!
"The Sorrows of Young Werther" is a tragic story written by literary genius Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. First published in 1774, it is the story of a sensitive young man who is in love with a married woman who rejects him. Goethe has brilliantly captured the poignancy and destructive effects of unrequited love. Heart-rending!
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774; a revised edition of the novel was published in 1787. Werther was an important novel of the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and it also influenced the later Romantic literary movement.
A major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version. The Vintage Classics edition also includes NOVELLA, Goethe's poetic vision of an idyllic pastoral society.
Composed almost entirely of letters written by Werther to his friend Wilhelm, The Sorrows of Young Werther is a heartbreaking narrative about a doomed love. Werther, a young artist driven more by the heart than by reason, is already enraptured with the elusive Charlotte when she marries another man better suited to her class. To keep Charlotte near, Werther befriends her husband--a bid that becomes a torturous reminder of all he's lost. Then, out of sincere pity, Charlotte can think of only one way to help free Werther from his self-destructive passion, but he has a different plan of escape. In one of the first important novels of the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature, the self-absorption of youth unites with the extremes of emotion to create a perfect storm, leaving readers shipwrecked on the shores of grief and awe. Revised edition: Previously published as The Sorrows of Young Werther, this edition of The Sorrows of Young Werther (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.
