The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with R. Dillon Boylan (Translator), Nathan Haskell Dole (Contributor)

149 pages first pub 1774 (editions)

fiction classics romance dark emotional sad slow-paced
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The 1774 publication of the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther transformed its 24-year-old author, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, into a world-renowned literary sensation virtually overnight. The story centers on Werther, a highly sensitiv...

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