Faust: Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Constantine (Translator)

Faust: Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Constantine (Translator)Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe's great work the embittered thinker

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