The Sorrows of Young Werther

“In letters to his friend Wilhelm, a gifted, passionate young man tells of a spring and summer in the country, of nature, children and Homer, and of Lotte, whom he meets on the way to a ball and loves from the first moment, though she is promised to another. He goes away, is humiliated at court, comes back, and finds her married; and as the year darkens, the letters break off, and an editor tells the end.”