Sorrows Of Young Werther And Selected Writings

The Sorrows of Young Werther brings to life an idyllic German village where a youth on vacation meets and falls for lovely Charlotte. The story unfolds in the letters Werther writes to his friend about Charlotte's charms, even after he realizes his love will remain unrequited. Such love is age-old-so why, upon the publication of this slender volume, did a rash of youths all across Europe commit suicide? And why did Napoleon take a copy with him into battle in Egypt? "Reflections on Werther" and "Goethe in Sesenheim," taken from the author's memoirs, shed some light on these questions-and on the genius who "disciplined himself into wholeness" (Nietzsche). In the delightful "The New Melusina," a pixie princess assumes the form of a woman as she searches for a human mate-not to obtain a human soul, but for other, more practical purposes. And "The Fairy Tale" is a sophisticated but strange story mingling humans with such fantastic characters as will-o-the-wisps and a talking green serpent.Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von is the author of 'Sorrows Of Young Werther And Selected Writings', published 2005 under ISBN 9780451529626 and ISBN 0451529626.