| The Sorrows of Young Werther Contributor(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679729518 ISBN-13: 9780679729518 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1990 Annotation: When this book was published in 1774, it inspired a mass cult of feelings (and reputedly a few suicides) and made its author one of the first literary celebrities. It is a story of a tormented young man whose fixation on an inaccessible woman culminates in tragedy may be read as a celebration of unfettered emotion or as a mercilessly accurate portrait of a man whose dedication to pure feeling turns him into a monster. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89040604 |
| Series: Vintage Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.22" W x 8.15" (0.52 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - German |