Sorrows of Young Werther, The

noun

1. German Die Leiden des Jungen Werther, a romantic novel (1774) in epistolary form by Goethe.

Example Sentences

Adapted from Goethe’s novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” the opera tells of an aimless and melancholic young courtier in 1780s Germany, a dabbler in poetry, fixated on his own perceptions of life.

From New York Times

Goethe sentimentalised it in The Sorrows of Young Werther, "the appearance of the marvellous tree with its wax candles, sweets, and apples would put them in heavenly rapture."

From The Guardian

He called it “the Werther effect,” after the rash of suicides that followed the 1774 publication of “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” the novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe whose romantic hero kills himself.

From New York Times

In the simple life of Kestner and Charlotte Buff and in the suicide of a young man named Jerusalem, whom they all knew, he found the details for the picture of life described in his celebrated novel called the "Sorrows of Young Werther," the novel most remarkable perhaps of modern times, if its influence on literature and society be regarded.

From Project Gutenberg