Faust: The Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust: The Tragedy

Goethe's Faust #1-2

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with Eugène Delacroix (Illustrator)

232 pages first pub 1808 (editions)

fiction classics play poetry adventurous dark reflective slow-paced
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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,...

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