![]() ![]() Read more channelled the Romantic sensibility of the day and led to a wave of imitations. Goethe's story of a sensitive young artist alienated from society. ![]() Overwhelmed by his feelings, Werther begins to see only one way to escape from his anguish. ![]() 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. '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. David Constantine's new translation captures the novel's lyric intensity, and is accompanied by an introduction and notes that illuminate Goethe's achievement. Drawing on his own unhappy experiences, Goethe's account of Werther's passionate love for Lotte, who is promised to another, is one of the first great Romantic tragic novels. Description for The Sorrows of Young Werther Paperback. ![]()
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