The Sorrows of Young Werther
Tragic masterpiece explores mind of an artist in alternately joyful and despairing letters recounting an unhappy romance. Goethe addresses issues of love, death, and redemption in an influential portrayal of a character who struggles to reconcile his artistic sensibilities with the demands of the...
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Tragic masterpiece explores mind of an artist in alternately joyful and despairing letters recounting an unhappy romance. Goethe addresses issues of love, death, and redemption in an influential portrayal of a character who struggles to reconcile his artistic sensibilities with the demands of the objective world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486424552 (0486424553)
ASIN: 486424553
Publish date: October 29th 2002
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
Drama,
Philosophy,
German Literature,
18th Century
I wanted to read this 18th century publishing phenomenon because of History Bites, a slightly crazy show that liked to imagine what history would have been like if television had been around. It did an episode on Goethe where a bunch of impressionable youths were dressing up in Werther’s blue coat a...
"When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities . . . and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive re...
Tak ckliwej powieści nie czytałem nigdy w życiu, a być może nawet Goethe w tym wydaniu stał się dla mnie szczepionką na wszystkie romanse i "duszne rozterki", bo nie znoszę ich do dziś. A trzeba powiedzieć, że czytałem "Cierpienia..." w werterowskim wieku. Epoka, w której za przyczyną tej powieści p...
Wiem, że książka została napisana w okresie romantyzmu i naprawdę starałam się na tym myśleniu opierać wszystko to, co mi się nie podobało. Niestety, po lekturze naprawdę byłam zawiedziona. Dziwię się, że taka książka odniosła jakiś sukces. Te wszystkie listy dotyczą tylko tego, jak 'biedny' Weter u...
Classic, beautiful book that made me love it and hate it. Werther can look so arrogant when he talks and express about some people he met along the story, but we can’t help to like him and sympathize his sorrows when he falls in love with Lotte and realises that he could never be with her, she would...
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