The Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. VI (in 14 volumes): with His Life by George Henry Lewes: The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, The Good Women and a Tale

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

ISBN 10: 1646791983 / ISBN 13: 9781646791989

Published by Cosimo Classics, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. VI (in 14 volumes): with His Life by George Henry Lewes: The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, The Good Women and a Tale
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1646791983
• ISBN 13: 9781646791989
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

"All extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. VI--The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, The Good Women and A Tale, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is part of a 14-volume set originally published in 1901-1902. The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), written when Goethe was 24, became his most important work. This novel is about an unhappy romantic infatuation that ends in suicide. Its hero, Werther, an obsessive figure driven to despair by his unrequited love for the young Lotte, has become a pervasive literary archetype.

Elective Affinities (1809), is Goethe's third novel and examines whether the laws of chemistry undermine or uphold the institution of marriage, as well as other human social relations.

About the Author

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) was a German poet, writer, scientist, statesman, and one of the greatest German literary figures. Goethe, the eldest of seven children born in a wealthy Frankfurt family, studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Strasbourg. He wrote novels and poetry, dramas, treatises on botany and literary criticism, among which his successful novels The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795). Early in his life, Goethe was a member of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, emphasizing free expression of emotions over the restraints of rationalism. Later, Goethe, together with Friedrich Schiller, initiated the Weimar Classicism, a cultural movement based on a synthesis of Romanticism, Classicism and the Enlightenment.