The Sorrows of Young Werther

Name: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN: 9781911495239

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 110 pages
ISBN: 9781911495239
Published: 30 June 2016
Imprint: Urban Romantics

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The Sorrows of Young Werther turned Goethe, previously an unknown author, into a celebrated one almost overnight. Napoleon Bonaparte considered it one of the great works of European literature, having written a Goethe-inspired soliloquy in his youth and carried Werther with him on his campaigning to Egypt. It also started the phenomenon known as the 'Werther Fever', which caused young men throughout Europe to dress in the clothing style described for Werther in the novel.

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) stands among the supreme figures of world literature — a poet, playwright, novelist, and thinker whose influence reaches far beyond Germany. With Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship he helped invent the Bildungsroman, the novel of education and self-formation that shaped European fiction from Dickens to Joyce.

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