The Sorrows of Young Werther

Goethe's incendiary early novel lays bare the anguished heart of a sensitive young man consumed by hopeless love, a work that gripped a generation, defined literary Romanticism and made feeling…

At a glance A young man arrives in a country town, falls helplessly in love, and pours out his soul… Few novels have ever burned with such intensity of feeling, or moved a generation so… What it's about The Sorrows of Young Werther tells, through Werther's own letters, the… As his devotion deepens and his hopes close off, the letters chart the rise and fall of…

The Sorrows of Young Werther tells, through Werther's own letters, the story of his passionate and hopeless love for a young woman already promised to another.