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Tales for Transformation

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Translated by Scott Thompson

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther

A major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version. The Vintage Classics edition also includes Novella, Goethe's poetic vision of an idyllic pastoral...