Sorrows of Young Werther

Author: (German) Goethe
Translator: Yang Wuneng
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The Sorrows of Young Werther is one of Goethe's most important works from his early period, a rich achievement of Germany's Storm and Stress Movement, and a treasure in the world's literary heritage. Upon its publication, it swept across the European continent, sparking a Werther fever and quickly becoming a German literary work with significant international impact. Napoleon, who spent his life in military campaigns, carried The Sorrows of Young Werther with him and read it seven times. Goethe was Germany's greatest poet, writer, and thinker, one of the most important writers in Germany and Europe from the mid-18th century to the early 19th century, renowned alongside Schiller as the twin pillars of German literature in the 19th century. It was selected for the personal ideal reading list of France's Le Monde de la Librairie magazine. It was also recommended by 14 professors, including Qixian Li, Yang Zhouhan, and Li Funing, in their Bibliography of Chinese and Foreign Literature in 1986.