The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

The Sorrows of Young Werther brings to life an idyllic German village where a youth on vacation meets and falls for lovely Charlotte. The tragedy unfolds in the letters Werther writes to his friend about CharlotteΓÇÖs charms,even after he realizes his love will remain unrequited. ΓÇ£Reflections on WertherΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£Goethe in SesenheimΓÇ¥ collections of excerpts from the authorΓÇÖs own memoirsreveal the genius whoas Nietzsche saidΓÇ£disciplined himself into wholeness.ΓÇ¥ Next is ΓÇ£The New MelusinaΓÇ¥the delightful story of a pixie princess who assumes the form of a woman as she searches for a human mate. FinallyΓÇ£The Fairy TaleΓÇ¥ is a sophisticated but strange story in which the laws of nature and physics do not applyΓÇömingled among its human characters is a cast of two sentient will-oΓÇÖ-the-wispsa giant and his shadowa talking green serpentand four metal statues. With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements and a New Afterword