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One of the world's first bestsellers, this tragic masterpiece attained an instant and lasting success upon its 1774 publication, catapulting the author to the forefront of the German literary movement known as Sturm und Drang. A burst of parodies, operas, poems, and...
A masterpiece of the European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic strum und drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings passion and precision to Goethe's timeless novel of obsessive love and madness in this...
A masterpiece of European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic Sturm und Drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings new passion and precision to Goethe's timeless novel of obsessive love and madness in...
Goethe's themes of unrequited love, the pain of rejection, deepening despair, and their tragic consequences are as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1774. His hugely influential novel informed the writing of, among others, Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann. In...
"Be on your guard ... and take care not to fall in love " Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Although he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue...
The majority of The Sorrows of Young Werther, where a more accurate translation should substitute 'Sufferings' for 'Sorrows', is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of highly sensitive and passionate temperament, and sent to his friend Wilhelm.In...
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...
The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe's story of a sensitive young artist--an alienated youth of searching introspection and passionate intensity--captured the Romantic sensibility of the day and led to a wave of...
Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werther / The Sorrows of Young Werther. German - English Zweisprachige Ausgabe. bersetzt von R. Dillon Boylan Gro format, 216 x 279 mm Berliner bilinguale Ausgabe, 2015
This version of the novel has been accommodated for German learners. The original German version of the story has been aligned side-by-side with the official English translation by R.D. Boylan. German is printed on the left page, and English on the right page. The...
Es una novela epistolar semiautobiografica de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, publicada en 1774. La escena principal muestra fundamentalmente la traduccion alemana de Goethe de una porcion del ciclo de poemas Ossian que, aunque originalmente se consideraban traducciones de obras...
How happy I am that I am gone! My dear friend, what a thing is the heart of man! To leave you, from whom I have been inseparable, whom I love so dearly, and yet to feel happy! I know you will forgive me. Have not other attachments been specially appointed by fate to torment a...
Most of The Sorrows of Young Werther is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm. These give an intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Wahlheim (based on Garbenheim,...
Reconocido como uno de los m s grandes escritores y pensadores europeos de los tiempos modernos, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749 - 1832), influenci profundamente el crecimiento del romanticismo literario. En 1773 se publica Las desventuras del joven Werther, obra clave del...
Vollst ndige Taschenbuchausgabe. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers lautet der urspr ngliche Titel des von Johann Wolfgang Goethe verfassten Briefromans, in dem der junge Rechtspraktikant Werther bis zu seinem Suizid ber seine ungl ckliche Liebesbeziehung...