<b>The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><b>Die Leiden des jungen Werthers</b></i>) is a 1774&nbsp;epistolary novel&nbsp;by&nbsp;Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787.<br /><br />It was one of the main novels in the&nbsp;<i>Sturm und Drang</i>&nbsp;period in&nbsp;German literature, and influenced the later&nbsp;Romantic&nbsp;movement. Goethe, aged 24 at the time, finished&nbsp;<i>Werther</i>&nbsp;in five and a half weeks of intensive writing in January to March 1774. It instantly placed him among the foremost international literary celebrities and was among the best known of his works.<br /><br />Most of&nbsp;<i>The Sorrows of Young Werther</i>, a story about a young man&#39;s extreme response to&nbsp;unrequited love, is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm.<br /><br />These give an intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Wahlheim (based on&nbsp;Garbenheim&nbsp;[de;&nbsp;it;&nbsp;nl], near&nbsp;Wetzlar), whose peasants have enchanted him with their simple ways. There he meets Charlotte, a beautiful young girl who takes care of her siblings after the death of their mother. Werther falls in love with Charlotte despite knowing beforehand that she is engaged to a man named Albert, eleven years her senior.