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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Sorrows of Young Werther

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Werther, a young man of sensitivity and artistic feeling, falls in love with Charlotte, who is engaged and then married to another. His inability to either act on his love or let it go leads to his suicide. Written in epistolary form by the twenty-four-year-old Goethe, the novel triggered a wave of imitative suicides across Europe.

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