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title: "The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther"
author: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
translator: "R. D. Boylan"
title_de: "Die Leiden des jungen Werther · The Sorrows of Young Werther"
languages: [de, en]
shelf: "Literature"
section: 29 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/29/
cite: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. R. D. Boylan, The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther, section 29. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/29/"
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# The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther

*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. R. D. Boylan*

German: Die Leiden des jungen Werther · The Sorrows of Young Werther

A young man falls in love with Lotte, who is promised to another, and writes it all to a friend: the letters that made Goethe famous and all Europe weep, in German and English.

> German: Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Hamburger Ausgabe, Band 6 (Project Gutenberg #2407 and #2408, prepared by Michael Pullen, proofread by Dr. Mary Cicora).

> English: The Sorrows of Young Werther, translated by R. D. Boylan, edited by Nathan Haskell Dole (Project Gutenberg #2527). The translator’s preface has no German counterpart in this edition.

## 29. Book I · Evening

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/29/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/29/#p-N

[¶0] Evening

> German: Abends

[¶1] THE SAME EVENING. My diary, which I have for some time neglected, came before me today; and I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child! Even still I behold the result plainly, and yet have no thought of acting with greater prudence.

> German: Mein Tagebuch, das ich seit einiger Zeit vernachlässiget, fiel mir heut wieder in die Hände, und ich bin erstaunt, wie ich so wissentlich in das alles, Schritt vor Schritt, hineingegangen bin! Wie ich über meinen Zustand immer so klar gesehen und doch gehandelt habe wie ein Kind, jetzt noch so klar sehe, und es noch keinen Anschein zur Besserung hat.