The sorrows of young Werther ; and, Novella
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; translated from the German by Elizabeth Mayer and Louise Bogan ; poems translated by W.H. Auden ; foreword by W.H. Auden.
Contributors: Mayer, Elizabeth.; Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970.; Auden, W. H. 1907-1973.; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Edition: Vintage classics ed.
Series: Vintage classics
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780679729518
Subjects: Unrequited love -- Fiction.; Germany -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Novelle.; Novella.
Work titles: Werther.
Description: 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.