The Sorrows of Young Werther (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679729518 ISBN 13: 9780679729518

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990

Synopsis

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.

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From the Back Cover:

When this book was published in 1774, it inspired a mass cult of feelings (and reputedly a few suicides) and made its author one of the first literary celebrities. It is a story of a tormented young man whose fixation on an inaccessible woman culminates in tragedy may be read as a celebration of unfettered emotion or as a mercilessly accurate portrait of a man whose dedication to pure feeling turns him into a monster.

About the Author:

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.

BURTON PIKE is professor emeritus of comparative literature at CUNY Graduate Center. A leading critic, scholar, and translator of German literature, he has written and edited books on Robert Musil, Thomas Mann, and many others, and was the editor and co-translator of Musil’s The Man With-out Qualities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0679729518
• ISBN 13: 9780679729518
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224