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Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella

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Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella - Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, and Welbery, David E (Editor), and Lange, Victor (Translated by)
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Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the extremes of the subjective experience through the novel's 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 ...

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Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella 1995, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691043463

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Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt

ISBN-13: 9783518029664

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