Honorable and sensitive young Werther literally perishes from a love that can never be, a love for a married young woman, and writes his agonized letter diary to a friend, describing in tragic emotional detail his experiences.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Author(s)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
PublisherNorilana Books
ISBN / ASIN1934648965
ISBN-139781934648964
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Sales Rank1,500,065
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774; revised 1787) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a short, mostly epistolary work of elevated emotion of the German Sturm und Drung period that later evolves into Romanticism.