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The Sufferings of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Description for The Sufferings of Young Werther
Paperback. "Corngold's new translation is of the very highest quality, punctiliously faithful to Goethe's German and sensitive to gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first novel." -J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books Editor(s): Corngold, Stanley. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 252.
A masterpiece of the European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic strum und drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings passion and precision to Goethe’s timeless novel of obsessive love and madness in this magnificent new rendition. The text is accompanied by the translator’s introduction and is fully annotated.
Goethe’s themes of unrequited love, the pain of rejection, deepening despair, and their tragic consequences are as relevant today as when the work was first published in 1774. This hugely influential novel was immediately bought, printed, read, exported, and ... Read more
A masterpiece of the European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic strum und drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings passion and precision to Goethe’s timeless novel of obsessive love and madness in this magnificent new rendition. The text is accompanied by the translator’s introduction and is fully annotated.
Goethe’s themes of unrequited love, the pain of rejection, deepening despair, and their tragic consequences are as relevant today as when the work was first published in 1774. This hugely influential novel was immediately bought, printed, read, exported, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Norton Critical Editions
Condition
New
Weight
252g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393935561
SKU
V9780393935561
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About Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) perhaps comes as close as any man to deserving the title of universal genius. Poet, dramatist, critic, scientist, administrator and novelist, he was born at Frankfurt-am-Main in 1749, the son of well-to-do parents with intellectual interests; and he studied at the University of Leipzig and at Strassburg, where he wrote a play which initiated the ... Read more
Reviews for The Sufferings of Young Werther
"A highly readable, sensitive, and lively Werther. Corngold is both faithful to the German and true to the demands of a modern English text. The translator is to be congratulated on having produced a Werther in which both the substance and the tone of the original shine through. It is to be hoped that this new version will win Goethe’s ... Read more