The sufferings of young Werther /

The sufferings of young Werther /

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Author / Creator:	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Uniform title:	Werther. English
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2013.
Description:	xv, 238 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	A Norton critical edition Norton critical edition.
Subject:	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, -- 1749-1832. -- Leiden des jungen Werthers Werther (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von) Young men -- Psychology -- Fiction. Unrequited love -- Fiction. Despair -- Fiction. Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction. Despair. Loss (Psychology) Unrequited love. Young men -- Psychology. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8949208

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Other authors / contributors:	Corngold, Stanley.
ISBN:	9780393935561 (pbk.) 0393935566 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"This . . . is a new annotated translation . . . in which Corngold follows the German text closely, never knowingly using a word that was not current in English at the time the novel was written. "Backgrounds and Contexts" contains letters and diary entries written by Goethe and Johann Christian Kestner, the husband of Charlotte Buff, as well as lampoons by Friedrich Nicolai and William Makepeace Thackeray, and excerpts from Goethe's Autobiography. 'Criticism' brings together critical selections by Harry Steinhauer, Roland Barthes, R. Ellis Dye, David Wellbery, and Hans Rudolf Vaget, as well as a piece translated for this edition by Dirk von Petersdorff, and a selection by Christine Frey and David Martyn, written for this edition. A Chronology of Goethe's life, and a Selected Bibliography, are also included"--

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Summary:	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.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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 imitated throughout Europe, and what Goethe called the novel's "fire rockets" have continued to blaze through the centuries, influencing, among many others, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. The reader's understanding and appreciation are enhanced by the Norton Critical Edition's inclusion of a rich selection of Goethe's letters and diary entries as well an autobiographical excerpt and lampoons.<br> <br> <br> <br> "Criticism" brings together seven of the most influential essays written about The Sufferings of Young Werther over the last fifty years. Contributors include Harry Steinhauer, Roland Barthes, R. Ellis Dye, David Wellbery, Hans Rudolf Vaget, Dirk von Petersdorff, and Christiane Frey and David Martyn.<br> <br> <br> <br> A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
Physical Description:	xv, 238 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780393935561 0393935566