The Sufferings of Young Werther: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

This is a classic tale. SPOILER ALERT! It was the first to inspire suicide contagion when first published. END SPOILER ALERT (Read on from here with no fear) A brilliant meditation on obsessive love by a master. The annotations are useful as is the supplement. If you have any interest in the follies of adolescent love or just want to read a good short, well-crafted yearn, old man Goethe is tough to beat.

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These editions are wonderful, if you want critical background on the novel. The assembled text and critique is great for any student of good literature.

I read this as a teenager, but reading it now doesn’t make it any less tragic or shocking. I suppose that many of us have been where Werther himself was, as was Goethe himself apparently as he wrote his most famous work. The book is short, intense, and in a sense not greatly eventful. But each page drips with passion, emotion, romanticism... Goethe himself lived a long life, and was always haunted by this book that made him world famous at the age of 24. Strange how that is!!

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