Letters of Charlotte, During Her Connexion With Werter (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Letters of Charlotte, During Her Connexion With Werter I am happy that in presenting the following letters to the public, I am not exhibiting scenes, or communicating opinions, that can wound delicacy, or pervert sentiment. And though I too well know, that to avoid licentious description, and to reject fashionable ideas, is to wander far from the road that leads to wealth and fame in the literary world, yet I am not willing to acquire either one or the other at the expense of my reader's happiness. If amusement only is to be found in the Letters of Charlotte, it will at least be innocent amusement. If opinions are advanced which may appear uncommon, they will not be found to militate against the precepts of religion. If the mind of the reader is not expanded by additional knowledge, it will not be contracted by the subtleties of scepticism. Whether these negative recommendations will carry any weight, I know not, but I am sorry to find any book published, in favour of which even these cannot be advanced, and I am still more sorry that a book so universally read as the Sorrows of Werter, should fall under this predicament, a book which is not simply an apology for the horrible crime of Suicide, but in which, as far as the author's abilities would go, it is justified and recommended! In the Preface to the Sorrows of Werter, we are told, that the author had been called the apologist of Suicide, "by those who absurdly ascribed to him the erroneous sentiments which he has given to his principal character." Here seems to be a distinction without a difference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.