The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers ) is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787.
It was one of the main novels in the
Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement. Goethe, aged 24 at the time, finished
Werther in five and a half weeks of intensive writing in January to March 1774. It instantly placed him among the foremost international literary celebrities and was among the best known of his works.
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The Sorrows of Young Werther, a story about a young man’s extreme response to unrequited love, is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm.
These give an intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Wahlheim (based on Garbenheim [de; it; nl], near Wetzlar), whose peasants have enchanted him with their simple ways. There he meets Charlotte, a beautiful young girl who takes care of her siblings after the death of their mother. Werther falls in love with Charlotte despite knowing beforehand that she is engaged to a man named Albert, eleven years her senior.
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers ) is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787.
It was one of the main novels in the
Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement. Goethe, aged 24 at the time, finished
Werther in five and a half weeks of intensive writing in January to March 1774. It instantly placed him among the foremost international literary celebrities and was among the best known of his works.
Most of
The Sorrows of Young Werther, a story about a young man’s extreme response to unrequited love, is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm.
These give an intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Wahlheim (based on Garbenheim [de; it; nl], near Wetzlar), whose peasants have enchanted him with their simple ways. There he meets Charlotte, a beautiful young girl who takes care of her siblings after the death of their mother. Werther falls in love with Charlotte despite knowing beforehand that she is engaged to a man named Albert, eleven years her senior.
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