Famous Translations -- The Sorrows of Young Werther (Color Illustration Edition) (Color Illustration Edition)

Author: Goethe
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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 significant 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 major 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, alongside Schiller, often referred to as the twin pillars of 19th-century German literature. It was selected for the personal ideal book list of France's Le Monde de la Librairie magazine. It was also recommended by 14 professors, including Ji Xianlin, Yang Zhouhan, and Li Funing, in the Bibliography of Chinese and Foreign Literature published in 1986.