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The Sorrows of Young WertherOn the coverWanderer above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1818
The Sorrows of Young Werther
In a series of impassioned letters, a sensitive young man falls hopelessly in love with a woman promised to another, and is slowly consumed by a longing he cannot master. The book that made Goethe famous and defined an age of feeling.
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The book that launched Romanticism and a continent-wide craze, a raw, intimate outpouring of young love and despair that still burns on the page. Read it to feel an era being born.
SettingGermany, 1770s
Late-eighteenth-century Germany, on the cusp of the Sturm und Drang movement that prized feeling, nature, and the suffering individual above all.