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  2. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Carlyle, who incidentally translated Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister into English, frequently refers to and parodies Werther's relationship in his 1836 novel Sartor Resartus. [19] The statistician Karl Pearson's first book was The New Werther. William Makepeace Thackeray wrote a poem satirizing Goethe's story entitled "Sorrows of Werther ...

  3. Werther's Original - Wikipedia

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    Werther's Original (from the original German: Werther's Echte) is a brand of caramel and butter confectionery owned by the German company August Storck, based in Berlin, Germany. The candy is popular [ citation needed ] in Europe and North America .

  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wikipedia

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    The most important of Goethe's works produced before he went to Weimar were Götz von Berlichingen (1773), a tragedy that was the first work to bring him recognition, and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) (1774), which gained him enormous fame as a writer in the Sturm und Drang period which marked ...

  5. Werther - Wikipedia

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    Werther is an opera (drame lyrique) in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther , which was based both on fact and on Goethe's own early life.

  6. The Novel of Werther - Wikipedia

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    The Novel of Werther (French: Le Roman de Werther) is a 1938 French historical drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Annie Vernay and Jean Galland. It is based on the 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. [1] The film was made by Nero Film, a company run by German exiles who had left following the ...

  7. Copycat suicide - Wikipedia

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    Werther and Lotte, from The Sorrows of Young Werther. A copycat suicide is defined as an emulation of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media. The publicized suicide serves as a trigger, in the absence of ...

  8. The New Sorrows of Young W. - Wikipedia

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    Discovered by chance, Goethe's book about Werther (whom Edgar often calls, in original English, "Old Werther") becomes a verbal weapon Edgar uses to solve inconvenient situations. The young rebel isn't successful as an artist and thinks that he's underestimated by the people a bit. He starts working as a house painter.

  9. Sorrows of Werther - Wikipedia

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    "Sorrows of Werther" is a satirical poem by William Makepeace Thackeray written in response to the enormous success of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel The Sorrows ...