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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: 38 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/38/
cite: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. R. D. Boylan, The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther, section 38. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/38/"
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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.

## 38. Book I · September 3

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/38/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/38/#p-N

[¶0] September 3

> German: Am 3. September

[¶1] I must away. Thank you, Wilhelm, for determining my wavering purpose. For a whole fortnight I have thought of leaving her. I must away. She has returned to town, and is at the house of a friend. And then, Albert—yes, I must go.

> German: Ich muß fort! Ich danke dir, Wilhelm, daß du meinen wankenden Entschluß bestimmt hast. Schon vierzehn Tage gehe ich mit dem Gedanken um, sie zu verlassen. Ich muß fort. Sie ist wieder in der Stadt bei einer Freundin. Und Albert--und--ich muß fort!