| ISBN |
9781847494047 (paperback) |
| Name |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 author. |
| Uniform title |
Werther. English |
| Title |
The sorrows of young Werther / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan. |
| Edition |
New edition. |
| Published |
Richmond, Surrey : Alma Classics, 2015. |
| ©2010 |
| Description |
xii, 135 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
"Die leiden des jungen Werther first published in 1774 ; This translation first published under the title The sufferings of young Werther by John Calder (Publishers) Ltd in 1957"--Title page verso. |
| Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135). |
| Summary |
Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the emotional journey of a young man who, during a stay in a picturesque German village, falls in love with Lotte, a local woman engaged to another man. As he realizes that his passion is doomed to failure and constant pain, Werther contemplates taking the most drastic measures. Partly autobiographical, and the prototype for many later Romantic works in its depiction of the sensitive, tortured hero, Goethes seminal classic is a timeless masterpiece of world literature. |
| Language note |
Translated from the German. |
| Subjects |
Unrequited love -- Fiction |
| Young men -- Psychology -- Fiction |
| Despair -- Fiction |
| Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Epistolary fiction |
| Other Names |
Morgan, Bayard Quincy, 1883-1967 translator. |
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