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Faust I and II, Volume 2 Goethe's Collected Works - Updated Edition

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ISBN-10: 0691162298

ISBN-13: 9780691162294

Edition: 2014 (Revised)

Authors: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stuart Atkins, David E. Wellbery, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man's pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, and a wealth of poetic and theatrical traditions. What results is a tour de force illustrating Goethe's own moral and artistic development, and a symbolic, cautionary tale of Western humanity striving restlessly and ruthlessly for progress.Capturing the sense, poetic variety, and tonal range of the German original in present-day English, Stuart Atkins's translation presents the formal and rhythmic dexterity of…    
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Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/2/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.50" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

David E. Wellbery is LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, University of Chicago.