Name: The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
ISBN: 9781537079257

Type

Physical Book

Author

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Publisher

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Language

Inglés

Pages

120

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 0.6 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN13

9781537079257

Synopsis "The Sorrows of Young Werther"

The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary, loosely autobiographical novel written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. The literature & fiction classic was first published in 1774. It was an important novel of the Storm and Stress period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement in world literature. The majority of The Sorrows of Young Werther is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm. These give an intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Wahlheim, whose peasants have enchanted him with their simple ways. There he meets Charlotte, a beautiful young girl who takes care of her siblings after the death of their mother. Werther falls in love with Charlotte despite knowing beforehand that she is engaged to a man named Albert, eleven years her senior. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas, memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four classic literary novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe completed The Sorrows of Young Werther when he was just 24 years old and it instantly caused him to become an international literary celebrity with his literature being read all over the world.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Poeta, novelista, dramaturgo, científico y político alemán. En la Universidad de Estrasburgo conoció a Herder, quien lo introdujo a las obras de Shakespeare y a quien ayudó después a crear el movimiento romántico alemán Sturm und Drang. En 1775 Carlos Augusto, heredero del ducado de Sajonia-Weimar, invitó a Goethe a vivir y trabajar en Weimar, que entonces era uno de los centros intelectuales y literarios de Alemania. Allí desarrolló una brillante carrera política que finalmente abandonó para dedicarse a viajar y a escribir. Es uno de mayores exponentes literarios del Romanticismo y para muchos el escritor más importante que han dado las letras alemanas.

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