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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

"Be on your guard ... and take care not to fall in love "

Complete and unabridged paperback edition.

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview