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The Sorrows of Young Werther - Quincy-Morgan, Bayard (Translated by), and Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
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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, ...

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The Sorrows of Young Werther 2015, Alma Classics, Richmond

ISBN-13: 9781847494047

Paperback