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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: 70 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/70/
cite: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. R. D. Boylan, The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther, section 70. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/70/"
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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.

## 70. Book II · October 19

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/70/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/70/#p-N

[¶0] October 19

> German: Am 19. Oktober

[¶1] Alas! the void the fearful void, which I feel in my bosom! Sometimes I think, if I could only once but once, press her to my heart, this dreadful void would be filled.

> German: Ach diese Lücke! Diese entsetzliche Lücke, die ich hier in meinem Busen fühle!--Ich denke oft, wenn du sie nur einmal, nur einmal an dieses Herz drücken könntest, diese ganze Lücke würde ausgefüllt sein.