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Author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Original title
Die Leiden des jungen Werther · 1774
Length
~42k words
Reading time
~4 h
Translation
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cherish
verb

TRANSLATION

дорожить, лелеять

to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.

She cherishes the memory of her grandmother.
Она дорожит памятью о своей бабушке.

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Why The Sorrows of Young Werther is a great book to read in English

The novel that made the young Goethe famous overnight in 1774: a sensitive young man pours his hopeless love for Lotte into letters to a friend. The epistolary form means short, emotionally charged sections — very readable in English, with the German original a glance away.

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