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Nada
Feb 04, 2013 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
"When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities . . . and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation . . . when I consider al this . . . I am silent. I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power." ...more
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Janet
Jul 23, 2013 rated it it was ok
Goethe wrote this when he was 24, just out of boyhood. The prose is beautiful, but the sentiments read like they come from a 13 or 14 year old... very immature, very self absorbed, as that age is. Yes, it was 1773 and people had not been exposed to romanticism. The book caused numerous copycat suicides, and still could in the wrong hands. I wonder how Goethe felt about this work in his later years. I would be embarrassed. For me, this classic was intolerably boring and annoying.
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Diana
Dec 31, 2013 rated it liked it
Tale of unrequited Love. Werther is obsessed with Charlotte who is engaged to be married. Albert, her fiancee returns from his travels and they are married but Werther can not stop loving her. Passionate. Gloomy. Dramatic end.
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Annette
Feb 21, 2021 rated it did not like it
Shelves: serial-reader, classics-read, classic-challenges-2021, catching-up-on-classics-read, 2021
This will join the list of books that I should have skipped.
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Kathy E
Oct 12, 2011 rated it liked it
Shelves: audio, classics
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Jan 27, 2013 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Perlie
Mar 30, 2013 marked it as to-read
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Damla Bilgiç
Nov 14, 2023 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2023, german-literature
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Jun 05, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Lis
Jul 12, 2018 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, germany
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Jan 07, 2020 marked it as to-read
Rita
Mar 24, 2021 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: biblioteca-js
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