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Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
GenreEpistolary Novel
First published1774
Original LanguageGerman
First published1774
Linkshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther
NotesDie Leiden des jungen Werthers (English: The Sorrows of Young Werther) is a loosely autobiographical epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. A revised edition followed in 1787. It was one of the most important novels in the <a href="/c/books/credit/424021/sturm-und-drang/">Sturm und Drang</a> period in German literature, and influenced the later <a href="/c/books/credit/424022/romanticism/">Romantic</a> movement.