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Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres

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An aging scholar, dissatisfied with purely intellectual pursuits, makes a pact with a cynical supernatural agent who offers renewed youth and worldly experience. The agreement propels him from secluded study into city life, mystical encounters, revelry, and a romantic involvement with a young woman whose innocence and reputation are destroyed amid social scandal and personal tragedy. Episodes range from a celestial prologue and occult gambits to folk festivities and courtroom-like reckonings, together exploring longing, guilt, moral responsibility, the clash of spiritual striving with earthly desire, and the ambiguous possibilities of forgiveness and redemption.

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Title: Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Illustrator: Harry Clarke

Translator: Bayard Taylor

Release date: January 4, 2005 [eBook #14591]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

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FAUST

by

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

Harry Clarke

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, IN THE ORIGINAL METRES, BY

Bayard Taylor

An Illustrated Edition

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