The Sorrows of Young Werther (Heathen Edition)

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> (1749-1832) was a German polymath widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language whose wide-ranging influence as a poet playwright novelist scientist statesman and critic persists on the Western world's literary political and philosophical thought. In 1774 he published his first novel </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>The Sorrows of Young Werther</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> a semi-autobiographical epistolary work - emphasis on pistol - that presents the confessions of the alienated and romantic Werther who has fallen madly in love with Charlotte who is to be married to Albert: a certainty that propels young Werther to an irrevocable conclusion. Considered the first great tragic masterpiece of European literature </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>Werther</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>'s youthful angst was catapulted to immediate success and lives on as relevant and heartbreaking as when it was first written.</span></p>