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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

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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. The translator is to be congratulated on having produced a Werther in which both the substance and the tone of the original shine through. It is to be hoped that this new version will win Goethe’s book many new friends." -- Jeremy Adler - Times Literary Supplement (London)
"Corngold’s translation is earthy and precise, with language belonging to a young man who is capable of both elation and despair." -- Rachel Shtier - The New Republic

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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
    Publication Date: 12/11/2012
    ISBN13: 9780393935561, 978-0393935561
    ISBN10: 0393935566
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    Book Synopsis
    “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

    Trade Review
    "A highly readable, sensitive, and lively Werther. Corngold is both faithful to the German and true to the demands of a modern English text. The translator is to be congratulated on having produced a Werther in which both the substance and the tone of the original shine through. It is to be hoped that this new version will win Goethe’s book many new friends." -- Jeremy Adler - Times Literary Supplement (London)
    "Corngold’s translation is earthy and precise, with language belonging to a young man who is capable of both elation and despair." -- Rachel Shtier - The New Republic

    Table of Contents
    Download Contents (pdf)

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