THE ATHENAEUMThe Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Novel
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textLetters from a young man who falls hopelessly in love with Lotte, who is engaged to someone else. Goethe published it in 1774, when he was twenty-four, and was famous across Europe almost at once. Young men took to dressing like Werther, in a blue coat and a yellow waistcoat.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 2 hr 50 min
- Where to find it
- The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #2527. In the public domain in the United States.