The Sorrows of Young Werther
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- First published
- 1774
- Pages
- 76Digital editionReference edition
- Reading time
- About 1.5 hours4 half-hour sittings
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- Not set
A little about the story
Werther's letters follow an attachment that becomes increasingly difficult for him to live with. Their intimacy gives readers access to his feelings and to the limits of his perspective.
What Werther chooses to tell makes his attachment feel immediate, but it can leave other people's experience of the same events hard to see. The changing letters put the reader close to feelings that the narrator cannot easily reconsider.
Is it for you?
You’ll enjoy it if you like
- intimate letters
- tragic unrequited love
- a narrator whose perspective has limits
A short but emotionally demanding read. Notice what the letter form lets Werther explain and what it leaves outside his account.
Things You May Not Know About The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Letters carry most of the account. The reader encounters Werther's feelings through what he chooses to write.
- An editor's account changes the form. Near the end, another voice takes over part of the narration.
About this edition
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