Sorrows of Young Werther

Author: (German) Goethe
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: The Sorrows of Young Werther is a significant work from the youth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of Germany's greatest writers, poets, and thinkers. The original book consists of letters from Werther to his lover Lotte, his friend Wilhelm, and some diary entries, written in an open and direct style. It tells the tragic love story of Werther and Lotte, portrays a rebellious young man who is passionate, talented, yet rejected by the then vulgar and decaying society, and expresses the anxieties, passions, and calls for freedom from physical and mental constraints of a generation during the Enlightenment period.