description: Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the emotional journey of a young man who, during a stay in a picturesque German village, falls in love with Lotte, a local woman engaged to another man. As he realises that his passion is doomed to failure and constant pain, Werther contemplates taking the most drastic of measures. Partly autobiographical, and the prototype for many later Romantic works in its depiction of the sensitive, tortured Romantic hero, Goethe's seminal classic is a timeless masterpiece of world literature.
language: German
title: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
titlecomplete: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
characters: Albert (The Sorrows of Young Werther), Charlotte (The Sorrows of Young Werther), Werther
genres: Fiction, Romanticism, German Literature, School, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 18th Century, Germany
ratings_count: 123759
places: Wahlheim, Germany
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Ελληνο-γερμανικό Βραβείο Μετάφρασης
category: Στέλλα Νικολούδη
publisher: Cornelsen