During a storm, this character’s love interest organizes a party game in which guests count successive numbers quickly and get boxed in the ear for making a mistake. In a different novel, this character reintegrates into society after another character thwarts his plan by placing chicken blood in his guns. This character is the subject of a parody by Friedrich Nicolai, and a novel about him inspired a novel subtitled The Beloved Returns by Thomas Mann. This character reads his translation of Ossian to a character who mentions the poet Klopstock while looking at the sky. This character is buried under two linden trees after committing suicide due to his unrequited love for Charlotte. For 10 points, name this character whose “Sorrows” title an epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ■END■
ANSWER: Young Werther [accept The Sorrows of Young Werther or The Joys of Young Werther] (The Mann novel is Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns and the Nicolai parody is The Joys of Young Werther.)
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