[Pocket Edition] World Literature Masterpiece Library - The of Young Werther

Author: (German) Goethe
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Publishing Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The Sorrows of Young Werther is one of Goethe's most important works from his early period, a rich achievement of Germany's Sturm und Drang movement, and a treasure in the world literary treasury. 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, and is celebrated alongside Schiller as the twin gems of 19th-century German literature. It was selected for the "Personal Ideal Library" list by France's L' magazine. It was also recommended in the "Chinese and Foreign Literature Reading List" compiled by 14 professors, including Ji Xianlin, Yang Zhouhan, and Li Funing, in 1986. The Sorrows of Young Werther is by no means an ordinary sentimental love story; rather, it achieved a great critical feat.—Engels
I sit here, agitated, my heart pounding, tears of and pain trickling down my cheeks, because I have just finished reading my dear Goethe's Werther.