The Sorrows of Young Werther

Front Cover
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 16, 1990 - Fiction - 224 pages
A major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version. The Vintage Classics edition also includes NOVELLA, Goethe's poetic vision of an idyllic pastoral society.

From inside the book

 

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
6
Section 3
8
Copyright

13 other sections not shown

Other editions - View all

The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Limited preview - 1990
The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Novella
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Louise Bogan
Snippet view - 1971
The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Novella
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Louise Bogan
Snippet view - 1971
View all »

Common terms and phrases

Albert Arindal Armar Armin arms asked bailiff beautiful brother calm Carmor castellan child clavichord Colma creature cried dark Daura dear friend delight emotions everything eyes Farewell father feel felt fire Fyodor Dostoevsky girl give Goethe grave hand happy hast hear heard heart hill Honorio horse husband imagine June 16 kissed ladies Langston Hughes Larissa Volokhonsky leave linden trees lion lips lives look Lotte Lotte's Louise Bogan ment mind mist moon Morar morning mother mountains nature never night once Ossian passion person pleasure Prince Princess Richard Pevear rock seemed servant Sojourner Truth song soul stood sweet talk tears tell thee thing thou thought told took town trees voice W. H. Auden Wahlheim walk wanted Werther whole wife Wilhelm Willa Cather wind wish woman words young

About the author (1990)

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749–1832) was a novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and scientist. He wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther when he was just twenty-four. His enduring dramatic poem "Faust " took fifty-seven years to write and was published in its entirety only after Goethe’s death at eighty-three.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Sorrows of Young Werther
Vintage Bks
Vintage Classics
AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Translated byElizabeth Mayer, Louise Bogan, Wystan Hugh Auden
Editionreprint
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990
ISBN0679729518, 9780679729518
Length224 pages
Subjects › 

Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Coming of Age
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan