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Werther, a very sensitive young artist, finds himself in Wahlheim, a quiet, attractive town in Germany where he looks for solace from the turmoils of love. It is a young springtime, and he dreams that arcadian solitude will establish a genial balm to his mind. But his affectionate tendency rules normally, and he falls in love with Charlotte - Lotte - even though he is aware she is affianced to another. In a series of words to his good friend, Wilhelm, he charts the course of his love, which increases to passion and obsession and, in the long run, tragedy. The Sorrows of Young Werther is the iconic love story which helped to usher in the Romantic age. Partially autobiographical, von Goethe, aged just 24, published it in just six weeks, and when it made an appearance in 1774 it immediately founded his reputation. Told through the protagonist's sight, it's the gradual go up of Werther's strong thoughts checked by efforts at restraint and complicated by the a friendly relationship with Lotte's husband that keeps the listener on border - particularly when read with sympathy, as here, by Leighton Pugh. Translated by R. D. Boylan; modified by Leighton Pugh.
