German thinker Engels:""The troubles of young Witt" reveals all the corruption phenomena in society with artistic techniques, and points out the most profound root causes of social ills.”“Goethe completed the troubles of Young Werther and established one of the greatest critical achievements."

Danish critic Brandeis: its value lies in its expression of the troubles, aspirations and depression of an era

Lukacs, a Hungarian aesthetician and literary critic, on the troubles of young Witt:"This novel not only declares the revolutionary humanistic ideal, but also completely expresses the tragic contradiction of this ideal. "The troubles of Young Werther" is not only18A peak of bourgeois literature in the th century19The great pioneer of literature in all centuries. If the history of bourgeois literature regards Chateau Brion and his associates as literary imitators of the troubles of Young Werther, it is deliberately belittling the significance of the troubles of Young Werther. It is not reactionary romance that inherits the true tendency of the troubles of young Witt, but the great narrators Balzac and Stendhal who described the tragic decline of humanistic ideals in the 19th century."

Goethe（Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749[UNK]1832）, German poet, writer of the late European enlightenment. Born in a wealthy citizen family in Frankfurt Town, he studied law at the University of Leipzig and the University of Strasbourg, and worked as a lawyer for a short time, but his main interest in literary creation is Germany"Rush forward"The backbone of,1775[UNK]1786In order to improve the real society, he applied to the Principality of Weimar as an official, but achieved nothing. He not only failed to overcome the vulgarity of German citizens,"On the contrary, it was vulgarity that defeated him"(Marx). therefore,1786year6In June, he went to Italy under a pseudonym to concentrate on Natural Science and engage in painting and literary creation.1788After returning to Weimar in, he was only the supervisor of the theater. He tended to be conservative politically and pursued the classical beauty of harmony and tranquility in art.1794After his contact with Schiller in, with the rise of European democracy and national movement and the spread of utopian socialism, his thought and creation also made a new leap, and completed Faust and other representative works.

The troubles of Young Werther is a novella created by German writer Goethe. The book was published in1774It appeared at the Leipzig book exhibition in the autumn of, and became a best seller there.

The novel describes the experience and feelings of the progressive youth towards the humble German society at that time, and shows the authors response to the concept of feudal moral hierarchy and the strong demand for personality liberation: young Witt fell in love with a girl named Lvdi, who was engaged to others. Witt was devastated by the setback in love. Later, Victor committed suicide because he was incompatible with the feudal society and felt hopeless in his future.

The Sorrows of Young Wertherbrings to life an idyllic German village where a youth on vacation meets and falls for lovely Charlotte. The tragedy unfolds in the letters Werther writes to his friend about Charlottes charms, even after he realizes his love will remain unrequited. "Reflections on Werther" and "Goethe in Sesenheim," collections of excerpts from the authors own memoirs, reveal the genius who, as Nietzsche said, "disciplined himself into wholeness." Next is "The New Melusina,"the delightful story of a pixie princess who assumes the form of a woman as she searches for a human mate. Finally, "The Fairy Tale" is a sophisticated but strange story in which the laws of nature and physics do not apply--mingled among its human characters is a cast of two sentient will-o-the-wisps, a giant and his shadow, a talking green serpent, and four metal statues.

With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements

and a New Afterword

Introductionintroduce

Translator’s Note Translators words

The Sorrows of Young WertherThe troubles of Young Werther

Reflections on WertherYoung Witt in real life

Goethe in SesenheimGoethe in saisenheim

The New MelusinaMelissas new life

The Fairy Talefairy tale

Glossary of PersonsCharacter summary

Notesnotes

AfterwordPostscript

Selected BibliographyCatalogue of some Goethe works

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