Project Gutenberg 2001-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 5826 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749 1832 Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, J. W. (Johann Wolfgang) Goethe, Juan Wolfgango Boylan, R. Dillon (Richard Dillon) 1804 1888 Boylan, R. D. (R. Dillon) Boylan, Richard Dillon Die Leiden des jungen Werther. English The Sorrows of Young Werther Translation of: Die Leiden des jungen Werther. Produced by Michael Potter, Irene Potter, and David Widger "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a novel written during the late 18th century, specifically in the Sturm und Drang literary movement era. The story revolves around Werther, a young artist who becomes deeply infatuated with a woman named Charlotte, who is already betrothed to another man, leading him into a spiral of emotional distress and romantic turmoil. The opening of the novel introduces us to Werther through a series of letters he writes to his friend Wilhelm. In these letters, he expresses his complex emotions about love, life, and nature. He describes the beauty of his surroundings and his internal struggle regarding his feelings for Charlotte. As he reflects on his past romantic entanglements and the nature of happiness, his passionate and introspective character begins to unfold. The beginning sets the stage for Werther's eventual emotional conflicts and highlights the themes of unrequited love and the intensity of youthful feelings that will define the trajectory of his fate throughout the novel. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Germany -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Unrequited love -- Fiction Young men -- Germany -- Fiction PT Text Opera Harvard Classics Banned Books from Anne Haight's list Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 293326 293311 2024-10-02T03:37:53.387839 2023-10-02T03:54:57.365865 text/html text/html 272038 2024-08-12T17:58:27 text/html 186562 2024-10-02T03:38:00.187768 application/epub+zip 189117 2024-10-02T03:37:56.526813 application/epub+zip 179203 2024-10-02T03:37:55.302827 application/epub+zip 361129 2024-10-02T03:38:03.051843 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 346552 2024-10-02T03:37:59.443807 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 301812 2022-09-02T04:33:56.672261 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 259660 259540 2024-10-02T03:37:52.977839 2023-10-02T03:54:57.060840 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 239822 2024-08-12T17:58:27 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19686 2024-10-02T03:38:03.214762 application/rdf+xml 16284 2024-10-02T03:37:55.856893 image/jpeg 3862 2024-10-02T03:37:55.578826 image/jpeg 183650 2024-10-02T03:37:53.413834 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia en.wikipedia