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Faust Parts I & II - Goethe . A translation into English by A. S. Kline with illustrations by Eug?ne Delacroix . Goethe's two-part dramatic work, Faust , based on a traditional theme, and finally completed in 1831, is an exploration of that restless intellectual and emotional... Read Full Overview

This edition presents Parts I and II complete. Cyrus Hamlin provides essential supporting material for this difficult text, and his Interpretive Notes have been expanded and reset in larger, easy-to-read type. "Comments by Contemporaries" includes short pieces by Margaret Fuller,... Read Full Overview

This new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe's Faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature--preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It... Read Full Overview

Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever... Read Full Overview

Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over 60 years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development. Faust is made available to the English reader in a completely new translation that... Read Full Overview

This luminous, timely new translation by renowned co-translators Zsuzsanna Ozsv?th and Frederick Turner, accompanied by original illustrations, brings Goethe's timeless classic to greater heights than ever before in the English language.

One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man's pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical... Read Full Overview

Goethe fue un poeta, novelista, dramaturgo y cientifico aleman que ayudo a fundar el romanticismo, movimiento al que influencio profundamente. En palabras de George Eliot fue el mas grande hombre de letras aleman... y el ultimo verdadero hombre universal que camino sobre la tierra... Read Full Overview

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( Fr ncfort del Meno, 28 de agosto de 1749-Weimar, 22 de marzo de 1832) fue un poeta, novelista, dramaturgo y cient fico germ nico, contribuyente fundamental del Romanticismo, movimiento al que influenci profundamente.

Faust. Eine Tragdie. Der Tragdie erster Teil (Faust I) Mit Goethes 1808 verffentlichte Tragdie Faust, wird Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Bearbeitung des Fauststoffs bezeichnet. Der Begriff kann sich auf den ersten Teil der von Goethe geschaffenen Tragdie, auf deren ersten und zweiten... Read Full Overview

You've heard the term "Sell Your Soul to the Devil." It sounds very rock and roll, right? Wrong It actually comes from Goethe's Faust--a tragic work about a man who sells his soul. The themes and plot of Faust seems right out of a modern horror novel--if you can understand it... Read Full Overview

Considered by many as Johann Goethe's magnum opus, "Faust" has a peculiar history of composition and publication. What began as a project in Goethe's youth, at the age of twenty, in 1769, "Faust" would not fully be completed until 1831 very near the end of the author's life... Read Full Overview