The Sorrows of Young Werther is a book of about 130 pages by German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It’s about a man named… well, you probably already guessed it, Werther who quickly and helplessly falls in love with a woman named Charlotte. The story is also loosely based on the author.
You can quickly begin to narrow down possible endings for this story and it wound up ending as I anticipated. While the book is predictable, the narrative was interesting enough to keep me turning the pages. There’s a degree of wit to the writer’s style or wit given to the main character by the author that reminds of Oscar Wilde’s writing which made me chuckle from time to time while reading a story that isn’t meant to be comedic and saw me agreeing with the pronouncements of a person who was losing his mental stability.
This book is not as famous as Goethe’s Faust and so while I can see his writing talent in his book, this being the first of his work I’ve read, I’d say I do have high expectations for his other writings.
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