Alana Harrison

Alana Harrison is a senior at Wake Forest University majoring in Sociology and German Studies.

The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Werter. A German Story, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1791).

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers was first published on September 29, 1774 in German by Weygandsche Buchandlung, Leipzig. It published in English in 1779 and a revised German version of the novel was published in 1787. This is Goethe’s most famous book of his Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) period, it is characterized by writing with anti-aristocratic themes, extreme emotions and personal freedom.

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