The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, and Novella: The Collected Works of Goethe, Volume 11
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- $27.95/拢22.00
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- Published:
- Nov 17, 2026
- Pages:
- 312
- Size:
- 6.13 x 9.25 in.
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Containing three of Goethe鈥檚 major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe鈥檚 best-known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the extremes of the subjective experience through the novel鈥檚 depiction of a sensitive young man caught up in a love impossible to fulfill. In Elective Affinities, a novel of tragic love, Goethe employs all the requisites of sentimental romance to give a deeply ironic perspective to the idea of love. As the title indicates, Novella examines the possibilities inherent in this genre.
The Collected Works of Goethe presents modern translations of a representative portion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe鈥檚 vast body of work. Selected from more than 140 volumes in German, this twelve-volume series remains the standard collection in English and features poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, criticism, and scientific writing.