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livesinthetub 's review for:
Goethe's Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
book #24 of 2020: Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I waited far too long to finally read (listen to) this wondrous, rapturous poem of a play. I heard, within its verses, the plots and devices of so many later authors: Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, maybe Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as quotes and allusions from previous texts: Sophocles, the Bible, and, most of all, Greek mythology. what a delicious literary treat I finally got to savor. (how I got a lit degree without having read it first is beyond me: i did get a full year of Shakespeare, though.