In this best-selling short epistolary novel the title characters beloved, a simple girl, marries a steady bourgeois; it was so popular that the Chinese painted the protagonist and his love, Lotte, on porcelain for the export trade.
Its publication in 1774 inspired Ugo Foscolo's sequel, Le Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis, and led many to commit suicide in imitation of its hero. In this best-selling short epistolary novel the title characters beloved, a simple girl, marries a steady bourgeois; it was so popular that the Chinese painted the protagonist and his love, Lotte, on porcelain for the export trade. That protagonist is an intelligent, artistic, and idealistic young man who eventually shoots himself in the head. FTP, name this novel in the c style, the first major success of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Its publication in 1774 inspired Ugo Foscolo's sequel, Le Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis, and led many to commit suicide in imitation of its hero.
The Sorrows of Young Werther