With the support of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Goethe National Museum it houses, Montblanc is dedicating its Writers Edition Homage to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Limited Edition to this universal genius, focusing especially on his literary works. Writing was Goethe’s lifeblood. The largest edition of his complete works and writings currently comprises 40 volumes, containing around 3,000 poems alone. His drama, Götz von Berlichingen, was published anonymously in 1773, but just one year later a period of frenzied activity saw him writing The Sorrows of Young Werther in less than four weeks, catapulting the 25-year-old lawyer to overnight fame. The Sorrows of Young Werther put German writing onto the European literary map. It is the story of a young man caught between love and duty, between burning passion and social convention. An entire generation saw itself reflected in the fate of the unhappy Werther. The novel has even influenced this limited edition: its impressive description of marble inspired the appearance of the precious lacquer of cap and barrel, while the engraving on the barrel ring echoes the framing of a copperplate illustration in an early Werther edition.