{"product_id":"the-sorrows-of-young-werther-paperback","title":"The Sorrows of Young Werther - Paperback","description":"\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version. The Vintage Classics edition also includes NOVELLA, Goethe's poetic vision of an idyllic pastoral society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen this book was published in 1774, it inspired a mass cult of feelings (and reputedly a few suicides) and made its author one of the first literary celebrities. It is a story of a tormented young man whose fixation on an inaccessible woman culminates in tragedy may be read as a celebration of unfettered emotion or as a mercilessly accurate portrait of a man whose dedication to pure feeling turns him into a monster.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101660057823,"sku":"9780679729518","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/86s-WLe9T-9780679729518.webp?v=1781071923","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-sorrows-of-young-werther-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}