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

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Synopsis

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 to the idea of love. As the title indicates, Novella examines the possibilities inherent in this genre.

Book details

Author:
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David E. Welbery, Victor Lange, Judith Ryan
ISBN:
9780691043463
Related ISBNs:
9783518029664
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2017-09-20
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
1996
Copyright by:
Princeton University Press 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Poetry