Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublish On: 2003-06-25
Loosely based on Goethe's personal experiences, the novel is written mostly in the form of letters in which Werther recounts his unrequited love for a married woman.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486433633
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 244
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Loosely based on Goethe's personal experiences, the novel is written mostly in the form of letters in which Werther recounts his unrequited love for a married woman. Its Sturm und Drang style makes it a perennial favorite with readers of every era. Includes the original German with English translation on the facing pages.
Though he realizes that Lotte is to marry, he is unable to subdue his passion and his infatuation torments him to the point of despair. This edition includes notes and an introduction by Michael Hulse.
Author: Johann Goethe
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780141023441
Category: Fiction
Page: 195
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Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Though he realizes that Lotte is to marry, he is unable to subdue his passion and his infatuation torments him to the point of despair. This edition includes notes and an introduction by Michael Hulse. This translation originally published: 2.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublish On: 1990-06-16
When this book was published in 1774, it inspired a mass cult of feelings (and reputedly a few suicides) and made its author one of the first literary celebrities.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: STANFORD:36105119798200
Category: Fiction
Page: 252
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A major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version. The Vintage Classics edition also includes NOVELLA, Goethe's poetic vision of an idyllic pastoral society.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublish On: 2013-09-05
A Dual-Language Book Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Sorrows of Young Werther Die Leiden des jungen Werther The Sorrows of Young Werther Die Leiden des jungen Werther.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486120416
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 224
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One of the first European bestsellers upon its 1774 publication, this classic of Romantic literature is written mostly in the form of letters in which the hero recounts his unrequited love for a married woman.
The theme of Werther and love takes us into territory similar to that charted by the theme of Werther and nature . Both themes oblige us to perceive Werther critically . And yet , just as in respect of nature we found that Werther's ...
Author: Martin Swales
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 0521316995
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 138
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The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century does not have an assured place in the canon of European literature. The one signal exception is Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von GoethePublish On: 2002-10-14
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774; a revised edition of the novel was published in 1787.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublish On: 2006-08
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nathen Haskell Dole. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther Translated by R.D. Boylan Edited by Nathen Haskell Dole MONDIAL Mondial New York · Berlin Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The c.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 9781595690456
Category: Fiction
Page: 104
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"The Sorrows of young Werther is a loosely autobiographical novel first published in 1774. It was Goethe's first major success. The majority of the novel is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a highly sensitive and passional temperment, and sent to his friend Wilhelm. Werther gives a very intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Walheim where he meets and falls in love with Lotte, a beautiful girl who is taking care of her siblings following the death of their mother. Lotte is engaged to a man named Albert. Despite the pain it causes Werther he cultivates a friendship with both of them. Each day serves as a torturing reminder that Lotte will never be able to requite his love"--Page 4 of cover.
The book's publication instantly placed the author among the foremost international literary celebrities, and was among the best known of his works.
Author: J. W. von Goethe
Publisher: East West Studio
ISBN:
Category: Fiction
Page: 157
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The Sorrows of Young Werther is a epistolary novel by J. W. von Goethe. First published in 1774, it reappeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the most important novels in the Sturm und Drang (“Storm and Stress”) period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement. The book's publication instantly placed the author among the foremost international literary celebrities, and was among the best known of his works. Goethe is, by some accounts, the father of the romantic period in literature, or at least the proto-romantic Sturm und Drang period. And The Sorrows of Young Werther was its genesis. While Voltaire parodied rationalism in Candide, Goethe transcended it with the semi-autobiographical story of Werther, a young man governed more by his emotions than his reason, whose only employment is his delight in the romantic ideals of the pastoral lives he finds in the rural town of Walheim. There he also finds Charlotte, and in her an idealized but unobtainable old-world domesticity. Werther’s internal dialog about his growing obsession with Charlotte, and his inability to cope rationally with the fact that she is engaged to—and in love with—another man, form the bulk of the book in the form of a series of ever more intense letters to a friend. Werther's descent into sorrow has captivated readers for centuries, helped by Goethe’s intensely beautiful prose, enchanting imagery, and obvious reverence for nature and a dying past.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublish On: 2013-03-05
AFTERWORD From its initial publication, The Sorrows of Young Werther has continually provoked intense responses. While some readers identify readily with Goethe's beset protagonist, others respond with puzzled disappointment or ...
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781101635483
Category: Fiction
Page: 272
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This classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the author's philosophy of love and death.