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"A highly readable, sensitive, and lively Werther. Corngold is both faithful to the German and true to the demands of a modern English text" —Jeremy Adler, Times Literary Supplement

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"Corngold’s new translation is of the very highest quality, punctiliously faithful to Goethe’s German and sensitive to gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first novel." -- J. M. Coetzee - New York Review of Books
"Corngold’s translation is earthy and precise, with language belonging to a young man who is capable of both elation and despair. If the prose sometimes sounds hyperbolic, so does Werther, who is by turns silly, melancholy, and somber." -- Rachel Shteir - The New Republic
"Stanley Corngold’s translation is a triumph. This is a glorious achievement, a Werther for the ages." -- Christopher Prendergast

The Sufferings of Young Werther

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    A Paperback / softback by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stanley Corngold

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      Publisher WW Norton & Co
      Published 8 January 2013
      ISBN-13 9780393343571
      978-0393343571
      ISBN-10 039334357X
      Also in:
      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: fiction Literary studies: general Johann Wolfgang Goethe Books by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      "A highly readable, sensitive, and lively Werther. Corngold is both faithful to the German and true to the demands of a modern English text" —Jeremy Adler, Times Literary Supplement

      Trade Review
      "Corngold’s new translation is of the very highest quality, punctiliously faithful to Goethe’s German and sensitive to gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first novel." -- J. M. Coetzee - New York Review of Books
      "Corngold’s translation is earthy and precise, with language belonging to a young man who is capable of both elation and despair. If the prose sometimes sounds hyperbolic, so does Werther, who is by turns silly, melancholy, and somber." -- Rachel Shteir - The New Republic
      "Stanley Corngold’s translation is a triumph. This is a glorious achievement, a Werther for the ages." -- Christopher Prendergast

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