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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

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

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

Goethe's Faust complicates the simple Christian moral of the original legend. A hybrid between a play and an extended poem, Goethe's two-part "closet drama" is epic in scope. It gathers together references from Christian, medieval, Roman, eastern, and Hellenic poetry, philosophy,... Read Full Overview

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

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

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 is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, yearning for "more than earthly meat and drink" in his life. He makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures and the Devil happily shows him the life... Read Full Overview

Goethe's classic, enlivened by Randall Jarrell's fine translation and Peter Sis's dark, dreamy illustrations Randall Jarrell's translation of "Faust "is one of his most important achievements. In 1957 he inscribed Goethe's motto on the first page of his notebook--"Ohne Hast aber... 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

Goethe's masterpiece translated by the eminent English poet and translator Louis MacNeice.

Fausto, de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe es una obra tr gica enteramente dialogada, concebida m s para ser le da que para ser representada (al estilo de La Celestina). Fue publicada en dos partes: Faust: der Trag die erster Teil (Fausto: Primera parte de la tragedia) y Faust: der... Read Full Overview