The Sorrows of Young Werther
1774 novel by J.W. Goethe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sorrows of Young Werther ([ˈveːɐ̯tɐ]; German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), or simply Werther, is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement. Goethe, aged 24 at the time, finished Werther in five and a half weeks of intensive writing in January to March 1774.[2] It instantly placed him among the foremost international literary celebrities and was among the best known of his works.[1][2] The novel is made up of biographical and auto-biographical facts in relation to two triangular relationships and one individual: Goethe, Christian Kestner, and Charlotte Buff (who married Kestner); Goethe, Peter Anton Brentano, Maximiliane von La Roche (who married Brentano), and Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem, who died by suicide on the night of Oct 29 or 30, 1772. He shot himself in the head with a pistol borrowed from Kestner.[3] The novel was adapted as the opera Werther by Jules Massenet in 1892.
Author | Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
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Original title | Die Leiden des jungen Werther |
Country | Holy Roman Empire |
Language | German |
Genre | Epistolary novel |
Publisher | Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig |
Publication date | 29 September 1774, revised ed. 1787[1] |
Published in English | 1779[1] |
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LC Class | PT2027.W3 |
Text | The Sorrows of Young Werther at Wikisource |