The Sorrows of Young Werther Author:Goethe This book is a unique collection comprising those works of Goethe which stress his positive attitudes toward love and death. In these tales and memoirs of fated courtships and redemption through death, the great classicist avoids the melodramatic and macabre, infusing his writing with clairvoyant wisdom and "the laughter of the gods." His hero... more »es and heroines, confronted by irreparable loss, stand strong in their will to live and reflect the wellsprings of universal order. A revolutionary in an epoch of sentiment, Gorthe was the prime force of the Romantic Movement throughout Europe.« less