The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella
The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1995-11-19

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780691043463

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Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the extremes of the subjective experience through the novel's depiction of a sensitive young man caught up in a love impossible to fulfill. In Elective Affinities, a novel of tragic love, Goethe employs all the requisites of sentimental romance to give a deeply ironic perspective to the idea of love. As the title indicates, Novella examines the possibilities inherent in this genre.

The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities
The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-27

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9781695147720

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The Sorrows of Young Werther is a loosely autobiographical epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. A revised edition followed in 1787. It was one of the most important novels in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement.

Faust
Faust

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Everyman Chess

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 1180

ISBN-13: 9781857152463

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) is one of the towering figures of world culture, a universal man whose extraordinary talents found expression in literature, drama, autobiography, politics and the sciences. To coincide with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Goethe's birth, Everyman's Library is publishing in a single volume his four principal masterpieces, together with a small selection of his poems and letters. Edited and introduced by Nicholas Boyle, author of the definitive biography of Goethe, the second volume of which will be published later this year, the Everyman's Library edition will show that Goethe remains one of the most intriguing and readable of European writers. Goethe established an international literary reputation overnight with The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), a story of disappointed love and pathological sensibility which mounted a powerful challenge to the rationalism of the Enlightenment.