Faust I & II: Goethe's Collected Works, Volume 2

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 material, and a wealth of poe...

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Main Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832 (Author)
Other Authors: Atkins, Stuart Pratt 1914-2000 (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press [2014]
Series:Princeton Classics 2
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Summary: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 material, and a wealth of poetic and theatrical traditions. What results is a tour de force illustrating Goethe’s own moral and artistic development, and a symbolic, cautionary tale of Western humanity striving restlessly and ruthlessly for progress. Capturing the sense, poetic variety, and tonal range of the German original in present-day English, Stuart Atkins’s translation presents the formal and rhythmic dexterity of Faust in all its richness and beauty, without recourse to archaisms or interpretive elaborations. Featuring a new introduction by David Wellbery, this Princeton Classics edition of Faust is the definitive English version of a timeless masterpiece
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed September 10 2015)
Physical Description:360 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9781400851676
DOI:10.1515/9781400851676

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