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I finished this book a couple of weeks ago and I have made my conclusion that this book is below average, it's not exactly one of the best ever books I have read BUT I can defiantly see why people would like it and ACTUALLY enjoy it....so it's a fairly good book, nothing too special.
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"Be on your guard ... and take care not to fall in love!" Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Although he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion for her and his infatuation torments him to the point of absolute despair. The first great 'confessional' novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther draws both on Goethe's own unrequited love for Charlotte Buff and on the death of his friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem. The book was an immediate success and a cult rapidly grew up around it, resulting in numero
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Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
Release date: 30 March 1989
ISBN-10 : 014044503X | ISBN-13: 9780140445039
Release date: 30 March 1989
ISBN-10 : 014044503X | ISBN-13: 9780140445039
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