Frederick Nicolai rewrote this work to give it a happy ending, prompting its author to write a poem where Nicolai defecates on the grave of its main character. In mid-May, its narrator writes of the joys of helping a woman with her pitcher and sketching a peasant sitting on his brother's lap. After being snubbed by his friends Count C and Fraulein von B while serving the Legation in Switzerland, the protagonist returns to Waldheim, but after reciting the story of Arindal and Erath to his love on Christmas Eve, he sends a servant to ask for Albert's pistols, and at the stroke of midnight shoots himself. For 10 points, 
Frederick Nicolai rewrote this work to give it a happy ending, prompting its author to write a poem where Nicolai defecates on the grave of its main character. In mid-May, its narrator writes of the joys of helping a woman with her pitcher and sketching a peasant sitting on his brother's lap. After being snubbed by his friends Count C and Fraulein von B while serving the Legation in Switzerland, the protagonist returns to Waldheim, but after reciting the story of Arindal and Erath to his love on Christmas Eve, he sends a servant to ask for Albert's pistols, and at the stroke of midnight shoots himself. For 10 points, name this 1774 novel about an Ossian enthusiast and lover of Lotte which inspired a wave of suicide across Germany, by Goethe.
Frederick Nicolai rewrote this work to give it a happy ending, prompting its author to write a poem where Nicolai defecates on the grave of its main character.
The {Sorrows of Young Werther} [or Die {Lieden des jungen Werther}]