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The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1774
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 130

A sensitive young man pours his heart into letters about a woman engaged to a steadier man, and when she is finally, contentedly married, he borrows her husband's pistols.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was.
The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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