Faust
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Faust
（Penguin classics）
Penguin, 2005-2009
- pt. 1
- pt. 2
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Faust : the first part of the tragedy
Faust : the second part of the tragedy
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Title page title of pt. 1: "Faust : the first part of the tragedy"
Title page title of pt. 2: "Faust : the second part of the tragedy"
Chronology: p. [xxi]-xxiii (pt. 1), p. [xxi]-xxiv (pt. 2)
Further reading: p. [lvii]-lviii (pt. 1), p. [xcv]-xcvi (pt. 2)
Description and Table of Contents
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pt. 1 ISBN 9780140449013
Description
Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe's great work the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a life beyond his study and - in rejuvenated form - winning the love of the charming and beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire and self-delusion, Faust, served by the devil, heads inexorably towards destruction.
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pt. 2 ISBN 9780140449020
Description
In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his 'imaginative longing to join poetically the Romantic Medievalism of the germanic West to the classical genius of the Greeks'. Further to the themes of redemption and salvation in this great drama, are Goethe's eerie premonitions of modern phenomena such as inflation and the creation of life by scientific synthesis.
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