Project Gutenberg 2001-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 41986 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749 1832 Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, J. W. (Johann Wolfgang) Goethe, Juan Wolfgango Boylan, R. Dillon (Richard Dillon) 1804 1888 Boylan, R. D. (R. Dillon) Boylan, Richard Dillon Die Leiden des jungen Werther. English The Sorrows of Young Werther Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther Translation of: Die Leiden des jungen Werther. Produced by Michael Potter, Irene Potter, and David Widger "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a novel written during the late 18th century, specifically in the Sturm und Drang literary movement era. The story revolves around Werther, a young artist who becomes deeply infatuated with a woman named Charlotte, who is already betrothed to another man, leading him into a spiral of emotional distress and romantic turmoil. The opening of the novel introduces us to Werther through a series of letters he writes to his friend Wilhelm. In these letters, he expresses his complex emotions about love, life, and nature. He describes the beauty of his surroundings and his internal struggle regarding his feelings for Charlotte. As he reflects on his past romantic entanglements and the nature of happiness, his passionate and introspective character begins to unfold. The beginning sets the stage for Werther's eventual emotional conflicts and highlights the themes of unrequited love and the intensity of youthful feelings that will define the trajectory of his fate throughout the novel. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 77.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Germany -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Unrequited love -- Fiction Young men -- Germany -- Fiction PT Text Opera Harvard Classics Banned Books from Anne Haight's list Category: Romance Category: Novels Category: Classics of Literature Category: German Literature 293429 2025-07-01T13:16:02.536705 text/html 272038 2024-08-12T17:58:27 text/html 186645 2025-07-01T13:16:08.606643 application/epub+zip 189116 2025-07-01T13:16:05.318704 application/epub+zip 179201 2025-07-01T13:16:04.228711 application/epub+zip 361111 2025-07-01T13:16:11.182618 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 346552 2025-07-01T13:16:07.947657 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 301812 2022-09-02T04:33:56.672261 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 259660 2025-07-01T13:16:02.192702 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 239822 2024-08-12T17:58:27 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18822 2025-07-01T13:16:11.312630 application/rdf+xml 16284 2025-07-01T13:16:04.720666 image/jpeg 3862 2025-07-01T13:16:04.472673 image/jpeg 183690 2025-07-01T13:16:02.559671 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia en.wikipedia