The novel is presented as a collection of letters written by the protagonist, Werther, to his friend Wilhelm. Through these letters, Werther recounts his intense and passionate love for a young woman named Charlotte (referred to as Lotte). However, Charlotte is already engaged to another man, Albert, which leads to Werther's unrequited love and deep emotional turmoil."The Sorrows of Young Werther" is known for its exploration of themes such as unrequited love, the pursuit of idealized roma...

Etta Finch knows exactly one thing she isn’t allowed to touch: the photograph her husband keeps face-down in the drawer. “An old club thing,” Tex says. “Leave it.” And for three good years she does, because the life they’ve built in Harlan is real — a settled man, a warm club, a marriage worth the quiet. She tells herself the face-down photo is just history.Then the woman in the photo comes home.Corinne was the Redhorse MC’s golden girl once — Tex’s first old lady, his great ...

Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature.The earliest forms of the work, known as the Urfaust, were developed between 1772 and 1775; however, the details of that development are not...

How happy I am that I am gone! My dear friend, what a thing is the heart of man! To leave you, from whom I have been inseparable, whom I love so dearly, and yet to feel happy! I know you will forgive me. Have not other attachments been specially appointed by fate to torment a head like mine? Poor Leonora! and yet I was not to blame. Was it my fault, that, whilst the peculiar charms of her sister afforded me an agreeable entertainment, a passion for me was engendered in her feeble heart? An...

The Sorrow of Loving Too Much : It is always sad that more people do not read Goethe for pleasure alone. Yes, he was a scholarly writer but his works, although profound, are written in an easily understandable style. It could well be that many people have been needlessly scared off by Goethes monumental intelligence and his philosophy. This is too bad. His books revolve around themes that are universal, subjects to which all of us can relate: romantic love, nature, God, beauty.Eigh...

Frustrated by his failing attempts at gaining infinite knowledge through magic, Heinrich Faust and his assistant Wagner go for a walk to see the Easter celebrations nearby. Unknown to him, the demon Mephistopheles made a bet with God that he can tempt his favourite human to sin. Mephistopheles convinces Faust to sign a contract promising his soul to the Devil in exchange for his heart’s desires – among them the lovely Gretchen.Considered one of the greatest works of German literatu...

Kit Donnelly grew up inside the Ironwood Motorcycle Club. Her father helped build it. It was her whole family — right up until the night it took him from her. Jasper “Pike” Kell was on a club run he had sworn to skip when her father died, and he came home to a wife already halfway out the door. She grieved alone. She divorced him. She spent five years learning to live without the man and the club that had cost her everything.Then, somehow, they found their way back. No showy diamond...

Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe's great work the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agre...

Dean "Gunner" Pratt never gave Shay Maddox a reason to count the keys on his ring. For three years she was his — she thought she was THE one, the woman he was slowly, surely building a life toward. She had a key to his place. She thought that meant she was the only one who did.She wasn't.For two of those three years, there was a her. A woman named Lacey, kept in a parallel life across town, given the same low promises, the same slow maybe, the same key. Gunner wasn't torn bet...

Seven years ago, Reese Colton vanished on the only man she ever loved. No note. No goodbye. No forwarding anything. She let Eli Ward believe she'd simply walked out on him — because the truth would have gotten him killed.She was carrying two secrets the night she ran: a death sentence with Eli's name on it, called in by the crew her estranged father rode with, and a baby she hadn't told anyone about yet. As long as she stayed, Eli was a target. So she did the only thing that could p...

For two years, Mai Tran was the best-kept secret in Delano — and she told herself that was almost the same thing as being loved.Priest was everything a careful woman knows to stay away from: a senior officer in the Blackvein MC, married eight years to Renata, one half of the golden couple the whole club held up as proof that a hard life could still look respectable. What nobody held up — what nobody was allowed to see — was Mai. The side road. The one he came to when the respectable...

Talon cheated. Not an almost, not a maybe, not a line blurred in the dark — a real affair, four months of it, while his marriage went quiet around the grave of Juniper's father. He told himself the thing every coward tells himself: that they were already over. That the drift between them was a death, not a distance. So he wrote the ending of a twelve-year marriage in another woman's bed and didn't bother telling his wife the story was finished until she found the last page herself.J...