Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella

Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the extremes of the subjective experience through the novel's depiction of a sensitive young man caught up in a love impossible to fulfill. In Elective Affinities, a novel of tragic love, Goethe employs all the requisites of sentimental romance to give a deeply ironic perspective to the idea of love. As the title indicates, Novella examines the possibilities inherent in this genre.

Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 11/19/1995
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.13w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780691043463