The Sorrows of Young Werther

Author(s): Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, R. Dillon Boylan

Genre(s): Epistolary Fiction, Romance

Narrators: Rob De Lorenzo, Barry Eads

Number of Chapters: 13

Length: 4 hours and 43 minutes

Language: English

The Sorrows of Young Werther (German, Die Leiden des jungen Werther, originally published as Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. The story follows the life and sorrows of Werther after he falls desperately in love with a young woman who is married to another. A climactic scene prominently features Goethe's own German translation of a portion of James Macpherson's Ossian cycle of poems, which had originally been presented as translations of ancient works, and was later found to have been written by Macpherson. (Introduction by Wikipedia and Barry Eads)