# The Sorrows of Young Werther

by [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://localbooks.app/authors/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe)

- Genres: [Ficțiune literară](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/literary-fiction), [Romance istoric](https://localbooks.app/genres/romance/historical-romance)
- Set in: [Wetzlar, Hessa, Germania](https://localbooks.app/places/de/hesse/wetzlar)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1774
- Pages: 161

## Description

In letters to a friend, a sensitive young man describes the country town where he has gone to rest, and the girl Lotte he meets at a dance, who is already engaged. As summer turns to winter his feeling for her consumes everything else, in the novel that made Goethe famous overnight.

## Where to buy

- [Open Library (ebook)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20555161W)
- [Standard Ebooks (ebook)](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/j-w-von-goethe/the-sorrows-of-young-werther/r-d-boylan)

Read a free sample: https://localbooks.app/books/the-sorrows-of-young-werther/read/1 (5 chapters, 42620 words)

Canonical: https://localbooks.app/books/the-sorrows-of-young-werther
JSON: https://localbooks.app/api/v1/books/the-sorrows-of-young-werther