The Sorrows of Young Werther

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ISBN: 9780812969900
author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
translator: Burton Pike
publishing house: Xist Classics
publication date: 2016 -3
language: English
number of pages: 102

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Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe    Burton Pike

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Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the emotional journey of a young man who, during a stay in a picturesque German village, falls in love with Lotte, a local woman engaged to another man. As he realises that his passion is doomed to failure and constant pain, Werther contemplates taking the most drastic of measures. Partly autobiographical, and the prototype for many later Romantic works in its depiction of the sensitive, tortured Romantic hero, Goethe's seminal classic is a timeless masterpiece of world literature.

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