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ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. David Constantine's new translation captures the novel's lyric clarity, and his introduction and notes illuminate Goethe's achievement. Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Werther's searching introspection and the passionate intensity with which he bares his soul have an immediacy that is all the more powerful for being expressed in letters charting the course of his emotions, they give added drama to the unfolding account. drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethe's story of a sensitive young artist alienated from society channelled the Romantic sensibility of the day and led to a wave of imitations. English Bookplateleaf 0005 Call number pt2027.W3. Overwhelmed by his feelings, Werther begins to see only one way to escape from his anguish. The sorrows of young Werther : Elective affinities Bookreader Item Preview.
Goethe drew on his own unhappy experiences to tell the story of Werther, a young man tormented by his love for Lotte, a tender-hearted girl who is promised to someone else. The short novel was published to wild acclaim in 1774. I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.' The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. The Sorrows of Young Werther is a tragic novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).
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