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书名：The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings 少年维特的烦恼及文选
作者：Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe歌德
出版社名称：Signet
出版时间：2013
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451418555
商品尺寸：10.5 x 2 x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：252 （以实物为准）
The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings《少年维特的烦恼及文选》收录了德国文豪歌德的经典成名作《少年维特的烦恼》以及一些歌德所写的随笔作品。附有美国文学家Marcelle Clements的前言介绍以及加州大学德语系教授Elisabeth Krimmer的后记。
推荐理由：
1.资深英德文学翻译家Catherine Hutter的英文译本，语言简练而流畅，适合文学爱好者研读；
2.除了前言和后记，书后还附详细注释表格，帮助读者理解；
3.体积小巧，适合随身携带，随时随地阅读；
4.再生纸印刷，保护视力，阅读感舒适。
The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary, loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. This is Goethe’s first novel, published in 1774. Written in diary form, it tells the tale of an unhappy, passionate young man hopelessly in love with Charlotte, the wife of a friend — a man who he alternately admires and detests. Goethe upset the conventional literature of his day by having his hero propose suicide as a method by which anyone might end an intolerable misery.Thetranslation of professional German-English translatorCatherine Hutter has made it a very reader-friendly one for the target readers, which deserves carefully reading. Apart from the whole story ofThe Sorrows of Young Werther, there are also some other Goethe works selected in the edition, such as excerpts from his ownmemoirs and a fairy tale.
Praise forThe Sorrows of Young Werther
“Nature has endowed [Goethe] more generously than anyone since Shakespeare.” — Friedrich Schiller
“[In]Werther, all the richness of [Goethe’s] gift was apparent… The extreme, nerve-shattering sensitivity of the little book… evoked a storm of applause which went beyond all bounds and fairly intoxicated the world.” — Thomas Mann
The Sorrows of Young Werther brings to life an idyllic German village where a youth on vacation meets and falls for lovely Charlotte. The tragedy unfolds in the letters Werther writes to his friend about Charlotte’s charms, even after he realizes his love will remain unrequited. “Reflections on Werther” and “Goethe in Sesenheim,” collections of excerpts from the author’s own memoirs, reveal the genius who, as Nietzsche said, “disciplined himself into wholeness.” Next is “The New Melusina,”the delightful story of a pixie princess who assumes the form of a woman as she searches for a human mate. Finally, “The Fairy Tale” is a sophisticated but strange story in which the laws of nature and physics do not apply—mingled among its human characters is a cast of two sentient will-o’-the-wisps, a giant and his shadow, a talking green serpent, and four metal statues.
This edition also containsan Introduction by Marcelle Clementsand a New Afterword by Elisabeth Krimmer.
In 1771, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) went to Strasbourg to study law. There, he had a love affair that later inspired the idyllic Dichtung und Wahrheit (1814). He then practiced law in Frankfurt, where he composed The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). Goethe accepted an invitation from the Duke of Weimar in 1775 to join his court and for a decade held various official positions there. He spent 1787 in Italy, where he wrote Iphigenie auf Tauris and worked on the first part of Faust (1808). In 1791, Goethe was appointed director of the ducal theater, a position he held for twenty-two years. In 1806, Goethe married Christiane Vulpius, the mother of his four children. In the last year of his life, Goethe completed the second part of his masterpiece, Faust.
Marcelle Clements is a novelist and journalist who has contributed articles on culture, the arts, and politics to many national publications. She is the author of two books of notification, The Dog Is Us and The Improvised Woman, and the novels Rock Me and Midsummer.
ElisabethKrimmeris Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. Among her books areIn the Company of Men: Cross-Dressed Women Around 1800,The Representation of War in German Literature: From 1800 to the Present, and (coedited with Patricia Simpson)Religion, Reason, and Culture inthe Age of Goethe. Her articles have appeared in journals such asPMLA, The GermanQuarterly,Seminar,German Life and Letters, andEighteenth-Century Fiction. She was awarded the essay prize of the Goethe Society of North America in 2006 and the Max Kade Prize for best article inThe German Quarterly in 2010.
