"The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a short, mostly epistolary work of elevated emotion of the German Sturm und Drung period that later evolves into Romanticism. Honorable and sensitive young Werther literally perishes from a love that can never be, a love for a married young woman, and writes his agonized letter diary to a friend, describing in tragic emotional detail his experiences. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" was Goethe's first major success, turning him from an unknown into a celebrated author practically overnight. Napoleon Bonaparte considered it one of the great works of European literature. He thought so highly of it that he wrote a soliloquy in Goethe's style in his youth and carried "The Sorrows of Young Werther" with him on his campaigning to Egypt. This classic by Johann von Goethe also started the phenomenon known as the "Werther-Fieber" ("Werther Fever") which caused young men throughout Europe to dress in the clothing style described for Werther in the novel. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" reputedly also led to some of the first known examples of copycat suicide. One concerned fellow author, Friedrich Nicolai, created a satiric-and happier-ending called "The Joys of Young Werther", in which Albert, having realized what Werther is up to, had loaded chicken blood into the pistol, thereby foiling Werther's suicide, and happily concedes Lotte to him. And after some initial difficulties, Werther sheds his passionate youthful side and reintegrates himself into society as a respectable citizen. Johann von Goethe was not pleased with this version and started a literary war with Nicolai which lasted for the remainder of von Goethe's life.