The sorrows of Werter: a German story.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The sorrows of Werter: a German story. (1788, printed for T. Osborne and S. Griffin)

Published Jan. 6, 1788 by printed for T. Osborne and S. Griffin.

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The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. First published in 1774, it reappeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the most important 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–March 1774. The book's publication instantly placed the author among the foremost international literary celebrities, and was among the best known of his works.

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