The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther
	First print 1774
Author	Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Original title	Die Leiden des jungen Werther
Country	Holy Roman Empire
Language	German
Genre	Epistolary novel
Publisher	Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig
Publication date	29 September 1774, revised ed. 1787
Published in English	1779
Dewey Decimal	833.6
LC Class	PT2027.W3
Text	The Sorrows of Young Werther at Wikisource

The Sorrows of Young Werther ([ˈveːɐ̯tɐ]; German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), or simply Werther, is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement. Goethe, aged 24 at the time, finished Werther in five and a half weeks of intensive writing in January to March 1774.^[2] It instantly placed him among the foremost international literary celebrities and was among the best known of his works.^[1]^[2] The novel is made up of biographical and auto-biographical facts in relation to two triangular relationships and one individual: Goethe, Christian Kestner, and Charlotte Buff (who married Kestner); Goethe, Peter Anton Brentano, Maximiliane von La Roche (who married Brentano), and Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem, who died by suicide on the night of Oct 29 or 30, 1772. He shot himself in the head with a pistol borrowed from Kestner.^[3] The novel was adapted as the opera Werther by Jules Massenet in 1892.

^ ^a ^b ^c Appelbaum, Stanley (2004-06-04), Introduction to The Sorrows of Young Werther, Courier Corporation, pp. vii–viii, ISBN 978-0486433639
^ ^a ^b Wellbery, David E; Ryan, Judith; Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich (2004), A New History of German Literature, Harvard University Press, pp. 386–387, ISBN 978-0674015036
^ Jack, Belinda (June 2014). "Goethe's Werther and its effects". The Lancet Psychiatry. 1 (1): 18–19. doi:10.1016/s2215-0366(14)70229-9. ISSN 2215-0366. PMID 26360395.

[Appelbaum-1] Appelbaum, Stanley (2004-06-04), Introduction to The Sorrows of Young Werther, Courier Corporation, pp. vii–viii, ISBN 978-0486433639

[Wellbery-2] Wellbery, David E; Ryan, Judith; Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich (2004), A New History of German Literature, Harvard University Press, pp. 386–387, ISBN 978-0674015036

[bj-3] Jack, Belinda (June 2014). "Goethe's Werther and its effects". The Lancet Psychiatry. 1 (1): 18–19. doi:10.1016/s2215-0366(14)70229-9. ISSN 2215-0366. PMID 26360395.

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