The Sufferings of Young Werther

The Sufferings of Young Werther

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0393079384

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"Stanley Corngold's translation is a triumph. This is a glorious achievement, a Werther for the ages."--Christopher Prendergast


The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Publisher: Signet Classics

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780451529626

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This classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the author's philosophy of love and death. This new, updated package includes a new Introduction. Reissue.


The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-13

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13:

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The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary, loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, presented mostly as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm. These give an intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Wahlheim whose peasants have enchanted him with their simple ways. Werther meets Charlotte, a beautiful young girl who takes care of her siblings after the death of their mother, and falls in love with her although knowing beforehand that she is engaged. Despite the pain it causes him, Werther keeps spending time with Charlotte, but his pain eventually becomes so great that he is forced to leave. After a short absence, he comes back to find Charlotte married, and his agony becomes a threat. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German writer and statesman, best known for his tragic play, Faust. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of meters and styles, prose and verse dramas, memoirs, literary and aesthetic criticism, novels, numerous literary and scientific fragments and many more. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August, following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was also an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement.


The New Southern Gentleman

The New Southern Gentleman

Author: Jim Booth

Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780972178600

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"Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover


The Sufferings of Young Werther

The Sufferings of Young Werther

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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Goethe's influential and important novel is here presented in a translation which flows in a modern natural style while maintaining fidelity to the original German.


The Sorrows of Young Mike

The Sorrows of Young Mike

Author: John Zelazny

Publisher:

Published: 2014-08-03

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780990405207

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Thoughtful yet spontaneous, self-aggrandizing and hopelessly philosophical, Mike would like to find out if the earth really is round. During his four-month voyage around the planet, Mike's past loves, current romances and vision of himself are on a collision course. His mind becomes increasingly abstract as he navigates the continents and struggles with morality in a dream world of his own making, a universe where spring break happens weekly at a dart's throw on a world map. Mike's story is told through his journal which is interlaced with various documents - essays, instant message conversations and an email. These documents tell a story that parodies Goethe, in both his behavior as a writer and his apparent views on love, nature and the world. These views were described in Goethe's seventeenth-century novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther.


The Essential Goethe

The Essential Goethe

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-12

Total Pages: 1051

ISBN-13: 0691181047

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First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.


Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther / The Sorrows of Young Werther

Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther / The Sorrows of Young Werther

Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-13

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781675028162

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This version of the novel has been accommodated for German learners. The original German version of the story has been aligned side-by-side with the official English translation by R.D. Boylan. German is printed on the left page, and English on the right page. The parallel text version will save you from reaching for the dictionary to locate the meaning of a word. As a result, you'll have a smoother reading experience. Loosely based on Goethe's personal experiences, the novel is written mostly in the form of letters in which Werther recounts his unrequited love for a married woman. Its Sturm und Drang style makes it a perennial favorite with readers of every era.


Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

Author: Rüdiger Safranski

Publisher: Liveright Publishing

Published: 2017-05-16

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 0871404915

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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and Kirkus Reviews This “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age. A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and—as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes—a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski has scoured Goethe’s entire oeuvre, relying exclusively on primary sources, including his correspondence with contemporaries, to produce a “fresh and authentic” (Economist) portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Skillfully blending “artistic analysis with swift, sharp renderings” of the great political and intellectual figures Goethe encountered, “[Safranski’s] portrait of the prolific genius leaves the reader with lasting awe, even envy” of a monumental legacy (The New Yorker). As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethe’s greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.