Goethe’s “Die Leiden des jungen Werther” (The sorrows of young Werther) is a classic of world literature. But it also typifies the sorrows of learners dealing with set books school or university. In ...

The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that she is married to somebody who can offer her a secure future, Werther tries to be near her.

Arguably one of the most insufferable protagonists in literature is the title figure in Johann Wolfgang Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" - a martyr to unrequited love who ultimately commits ...

Filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço has taken the 18th-century novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and brought the story to modern times with Young Werther starring Douglas Booth ...

Love is such sweet sorrow for the self-absorbed protagonist of this antic debut: a smart update of Goethe’s classic ill-starred romance. Arguably one of the most insufferable protagonists in ...

Arguably one of the most insufferable protagonists in literature is the title figure in Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther” — a martyr to unrequited love who ultimately ...