The Sorrows of Young Werther

Edition in German. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is not only the greatest German poet but also a thinker who had a significant impact on Western literary and philosophical thought. The epistolary novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" tells the story of a young man who moves to a small town where he falls in love with a girl named Lotte, who is already engaged to another. The story of the love triangle involving Werther, Lotte, and her fiancé Albert is marked by incomparable beauty and refined melancholy. Emotional turmoil caused by forbidden love and the indifference of polite society leads to the tragic demise of the unfortunate young man. His literary fate reflected the real lives of an entire generation obsessed with the idea of spiritual closeness to young Werther. The book is published in an unadapted version. Enjoy the captivating narrative of love and the sufferings of the hero of Goethe's novel in the original!