Ordinary Human Language

by Brian Crane

The Suffering of Young Werther

A short novel that with allowances for changes in dress and economics feels like it could have been written yesterday. I read it for the first time last summer and taught it to a small group of students in a very general 17th-19th century literature course in the Fall.

Two hundred and forty years old, and my students loved it. Pretty impressive.

Posted June 22, 2015