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The Sorrows of Young Werther

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This book is a loosely autobiographical epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. A revised edition followed in 1787. It was one of the most important 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-March 1774.

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The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Language
English
Released
2019
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Hardcover
Pages
100
ISBN10
1950330419
ISBN13
9781950330416
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First published
1774
Original title
Die Leiden des jungen Werther
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This book is a loosely autobiographical epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. A revised edition followed in 1787. It was one of the most important 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-March 1774.