Goethe's Faust
by Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
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(38 ratings)512 pages2010Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN 9780385031141
About this book
A poetic exploration of good and evil from the towering figure of world literature in the best translation available.
This edition of Faust provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm of the play as well as the complex depth of Goethe's brilliant language in this singular work of German literature. The volume includes the entirety of Part One and selections from Part Two.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN
- 9780385031141
- Language
- en
About Frederic P. Miller
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, pantheism, and science. His magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. <sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
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