By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Sorrows of younger Werther is a loosely autobiographical novel by means of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first released in 1774. It was once Goethe's first significant luck, turning him from an unknown right into a celebrated writer essentially in a single day. --- the vast majority of the radical is gifted as a set of letters written via Werther, a tender artist of a hugely delicate and passionate temperament, and despatched to his good friend Wilhelm. In those letters, Werther supplies a truly intimate account of his remain within the fictional village of Wahlheim (based in town of Garbenheim, close to Wetzlar), the place he meets and falls in love with Lotte, a stunning younger woman who's caring for her siblings following the demise in their mom. Lotte is, besides the fact that, already engaged to a guy named Albert. regardless of the soreness this explanations Werther, he spends the following few months cultivating an in depth friendship with either one of them. on a daily basis serves as a torturing reminder that Lotte just isn't in a position to requite his love...*

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To be admitted into this most charming family, to be 54 Goethe. The Sorrows of Young Werther. Contents loved by the father as a son, by the children as a father, and by Charlotte! then the noble Albert, who never disturbs my happiness by any appearance of ill-humour, receiving me with the heartiest affection, and loving me, next to Charlotte, better than all the world! Wilhelm, you would be delighted to hear us in our rambles, and conversations about Charlotte. Nothing in the world can be more absurd than our connection, and yet the thought of it often moves me to tears.

February 8. For a week past we have had the most wretched weather: but this to me is a blessing; for, during my residence here, not a single fine day has beamed from the heavens, but has been lost to me by the intrusion of somebody. During the severity of rain, sleet, frost, and storm, I congratulate myself that it cannot be worse indoors than abroad, nor worse abroad than it is within doors; and so I become reconciled. ” I could often beseech them, on my bended knees, to be less resolved upon their own destruction.

She continued, with a firm but feeling voice; “but shall we know one another again what do you think? ” “Charlotte,” I said, as I took her hand in mine, and my eyes filled with tears, “we shall see each other again — here Contents 72 Goethe. The Sorrows of Young Werther. ” I could say no more. Why, Wilhelm, should she put this question to me, just at the moment when the fear of our cruel separation filled my heart? “And oh! do those departed ones know how we are employed here? do they know when we are well and happy?

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