The Sorrows of Young Werther Paperback by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Foreword by W.H. Auden

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (1990-06-16)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 224 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679729518
• Item Weight: 195.9 grams
• Dimensions: 20.32 x 13.13 x 1.19 cm

A major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version. The Vintage Classics edition also includes NOVELLA, Goethe's poetic vision of an idyllic pastoral society.

About the Author

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749–1832) was a novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and scientist. He wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther when he was just twenty-four. His enduring dramatic poem "Faust" took fifty-seven years to write and was published in its entirety only after Goethe’s death at eighty-three.