The Sorrows of Young Werther is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang
Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787 It was one of the main novels
in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later
Romantic movement. Goethe, aged 24 at the time, finished Werther in five and a
half weeks of intensive writing in January to March 1774 It instantly placed him
among the foremost international literary celebrities and was among the best ...