The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679643087 ISBN 13: 9780679643081

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2004

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Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Presents a masterful new translation of the compelling novel about a young man's unrequited love and fatal passion for a married woman.

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A Major New Translation

For more than two centuries the very title of this book has evoked the sensitivity of youth, the suffering of the artist, the idea of a hero too full of love to live. When it was first published in Germany, in 1774, The Sorrows of Young Werther created a sensation. Banned and condemned but embraced—especially by the young—it has continued to captivate.

Now Burton Pike’s startlingly new translation expresses as never before all the anguish, ideas, and ardor of this seminal, iconic novel. And his Introduction reveals both Goethe’s inspirations and his influence—on works ranging from Madame Bovary to Frankenstein and beyond.

Here is the classic story of Werther, a young man “seeking the infinite” in an art he cannot master and a woman he cannot have—the prototype of the Romantic hero in a work that anticipated the Romantic Age. Here is a bold new look at a masterpiece that has changed lives and, like its beloved hero, will never grow old.

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0679643087
• ISBN 13: 9780679643081
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 149