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Life Imitates Art: On The Sorrows of Young Werther, Moral Panic and the Power of Books ‹ Literary Hub
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Sept. 28, 2024, 4:35 p.m.
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On a morning in 1807, a lovelorn, twenty-year-old German immigrant named Bertell settled on the sandy banks of the New Jersey-side of the Hudson River in Secaucus and carefully laid out a copy of h…
