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020 _a9780140445039
040 _a Uk
_c Uk
_d DLC
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050 0 _a MLCS 92/17687 (P)
100 1 _a Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
_d 1749-1832
245 0 0 _a The sorrows of young Werther
_c Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; translated with an introduction and notes by Michael Hulse.
246 _a<Die Lieden des jungen Werthers>
260 _a London
_b Penguin
_c 1989
300 _a 144 p
_c 20/13/0,9 cm
_fPaperback
520 _aThis is Goethe's first novel, published in 1774. Written in diary form, it tells the tale of an unhappy, passionate young man hopelessly in love with Charlotte, the wife of a friend - a man who he alternately admires and detests. Goethe upset the conventional literature of his day by having his hero propose suicide as a method by which anyone might end an intolerable misery. 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' became an important part of the 'Sturm und Drang' movement, and greatly influenced later 'Romanticism'. The work is semi-autobiographical - in 1772, two years before the novel was published, Goethe had passed through a similar tempestuous period, when he lost his heart to Charlotte Buff, who was at that time engaged to his friend Johann Christian Kestner.
521 _aIB
650 _aGerman Literature
_vSturm and Drang
_xRomanticism
_y18th century
655 0 4 _aCL
856 4 2 _3 Publisher description
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856 4 1 _3 Sample text
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856 4 2 _3 Contributor biographical information
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