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The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Marcelle Clements

The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Marcelle Clements
Afterword by Elisabeth Krimmer
Translated by Catherine Hutter

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Marcelle Clements
Afterword by Elisabeth Krimmer
Translated by Catherine Hutter

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Marcelle Clements
Afterword by Elisabeth Krimmer
Translated by Catherine Hutter

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Marcelle Clements
Afterword by Elisabeth Krimmer
Translated by Catherine Hutter

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    About The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

    The Sorrows of Young Werther brings to life an idyllic German village where a youth on vacation meets and falls for lovely Charlotte. The tragedy unfolds in the letters Werther writes to his friend about Charlotte’s charms, even after he realizes his love will remain unrequited. “Reflections on Werther” and “Goethe in Sesenheim,” collections of excerpts from the author’s own memoirs, reveal the genius who, as Nietzsche said, “disciplined himself into wholeness.” Next is “The New Melusina,”the delightful story of a pixie princess who assumes the form of a woman as she searches for a human mate. Finally, “The Fairy Tale” is a sophisticated but strange story in which the laws of nature and physics do not apply—mingled among its human characters is a cast of two sentient will-o’-the-wisps, a giant and his shadow, a talking green serpent, and four metal statues.

    With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements

    and a New Afterword

    About The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

    This classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the author’s philosophy of love and death.


    About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Before he was thirty, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had proven himself a master of the novel, drama, and lyric poetry…. More about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Before he was thirty, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had proven himself a master of the novel, drama, and lyric poetry…. More about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $7.95
    Published by Signet
    Mar 05, 2013 | 272 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451418555

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Signet
    Mar 05, 2013 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9781101635483

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    “Nature has endowed [Goethe] more generously than anyone since Shakespeare.”—Friedrich Schiller
    “[In] Werther, all the richness of [Goethe’s] gift was apparent….The extreme, nerve-shattering sensitivity of the little book…evoked a storm of applause which went beyond all bounds and fairly intoxicated the world.”—Thomas Mann

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