# The Sorrows of Young Werther

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- Book: [The Sorrows of Young Werther](https://www.bookquiver.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/the-sorrows-of-young-werther) ([The Sorrows of Young Werther.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/the-sorrows-of-young-werther.md))
- Authors: [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://www.bookquiver.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4192-129-7
- Published: 2006-01-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

You only find true love once. When Werther dances with the beautiful Lotte, it seems as though he is in paradise. It is a joy, however, that can only ever be short-lived. Engaged to another man, she tolerates Werther's adoration and encourages his friendship. She can never return his love. Broken-hearted, he leaves her home in the country, trying to escape his own desire. But when he receives a letter telling him that she is finally married, his passion soon turns to destructive obsession. And as his life falls apart, Werther is haunted by one certainty: He has lost his reason for living.