The book includes the famous novel in the letters "The Suffering of Young Werther" by I.V. Goethe translated by A.N. Strugovschikov, essay "Fifteen-year-old Goethe," which is part of Goethe's memoirs "From my life. Poetry and Truth," as well as Strugovshchikov's extensive literary and historical review "Werther." The book is provided with numerous comments. It is decorated with magnificent illustrations made by the best German artists for the collection of works by Goethe, published in 1882.