Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's loosely autobiographical epistolary…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's loosely autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), written intensively in six weeks between January and March, 1774, is published anonymously in Leipzig, Germany.

It instantly puts him among the foremost international literary celebrities, and remains the best known of his works to the general public.

It will become influential in the Sturm und Drang movement and will later influence the Romantic movement in literature.