The Works of J.W. von Goethe Vol. VI (in 14 volumes): with His Life by George Henry Lewes: The Sorrows of Young Werther Elective Affinities The Good Women and a Tale

All extraordinary men who have accomplished great and astonishing actions have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in The Sorrows of Young WertherThe Works of J.W. von Goethe Vol. VI--The Sorrows of Young Werther Elective Affinities The Good Women and A Tale by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is part of a 14-volume set originally published in 1901-1902. The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) written when Goethe was 24 became his most important work. This novel is about an unhappy romantic infatuation that ends in suicide. Its hero Werther an obsessive figure driven to despair by his unrequited love for the young Lotte has become a pervasive literary archetype.Elective Affinities (1809) is Goethes third novel and examines whether the laws of chemistry undermine or uphold the institution of marriage as well as other human social relations.