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Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Paperback / softback, 2017)

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Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Complete and Original Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited kwledge and worldly pleasures. Faust is bored and depressed with his life as a scholar. After an attempt to take his own life, he calls on the Devil for further kwledge and magic powers with which to indulge all the pleasure and kwledge of the world. In response, the Devil's representative, Mephistopheles, appears. He makes a bargain with Faust: Mephistopheles will serve Faust with his magic powers for a set number of years, but at the end of the term, the Devil will claim Faust's soul, and Faust will be eternally enslaved. The term usually stipulated in the early tales is 24 years, one year for each of the hours in a day. During the term of the bargain, Faust makes use of Mephistopheles in various ways. In many versions of the story, particularly Goethe's drama, Mephistopheles helps Faust seduce a beautiful and incent girl, usually named Gretchen, whose life is ultimately destroyed when she births Faust's bastard son. Realizing this unholy act, she drowns the child, and is held for murder. However, Gretchen's incence saves her in the end, and she enters Heaven after execution. In Goethe's rendition, Faust is saved by God via his constant striving-in combination with Gretchen's pleadings with God in the form of the Eternal Feminine. However, in the early tales, Faust is irrevocably corrupted and believes his sins cant be forgiven; when the term ends, the Devil carries him off to Hell.

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Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
brand
CreateSpace
GTIN
9781545044711
ISBN-10
1545044716
ISBN-13
9781545044711
eBay Product ID (ePID)
238240207

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Author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Format
Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Unclassifiable: Wz Bic

Dimensions

Weight
490g
Depth
11 mm
Height
279mm
Width
216mm

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Spine
11mm
Publication Date
31/03/2017
Illustrator(s)
Harry Clarke
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Illustrator
Harry Clarke
Translated by
Bayard Taylor
Original/Reproduction
Original
Genre/Subject
Drama
Date of Publication
31/03/2017
PublicationDate
31-Mar-17
Dimensions
279x216x11mm
Subject
Unclassifiable: Wz Bic
Imprint
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of Publication
United States

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