This work claims that "though the names are omitted…[authors] will feel it in their hearts" if they wrote a book that the main female character enjoyed; the only book mentioned by name is The Vicar of Wakefield.
This work claims that "though the names are omitted…[authors] will feel it in their hearts" if they wrote a book that the main female character enjoyed; the only book mentioned by name is The Vicar of Wakefield. Friedrich Nicolai wrote an alternate ending to this work involving chicken blood; the author responded with a poem in which Nicolai takes a dump on the title character's grave. The love triangle in this work involves "the best man in the world", Albert; his fiancée; and the manic-depressive title character, who writes to his friend Wilhelm about his obsession with Lotte. A rash of copycat suicides across Europe followed, FTP, this work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
This work claims that "though the names are omitted…[authors] will feel it in their hearts" if they wrote a book that the main female character enjoyed; the only book mentioned by name is The Vicar of Wakefield.
The {Sorrows of Young Werther} or Die {Leiden des jungen Werther}