Download or read book Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther written by Martin Swales and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987-11-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century does not have an assured place in the canon of European literature. The one signal exception is Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers