Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Goethe's Faust
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Faust: Part Two
Author: J. W. von GoethePublisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0199536201
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Loosely connected with Part One and the German legend of Faust, Part Two is a dramatic epic rather than a strictly constructed drama. It is conceived as an act of homage to classical Greek culture and inspired above all by the world of story-telling and myth at the heart of the Greek tradition, as well as owing some of its material to the Arabian Nights tales. The restless and ruthless hero, advised by his cynical demon-companion Mephistopheles, visits classical Greece i search of the beautiful Helen of Troy. Returning to modern times, he seeks to crown his career by gaining control of the elements, and at his death is carried up into the unkown regions, still in pursuit of the `Eternal Feminine'. David Luke's translation of Part One won the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here he again imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readable - and actable - translation, supported by an introduction, full notes, and an index of classical mythology. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Faust
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0553213482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethe’s genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe’s characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches’ Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen’s tragic fate. This authoritative edition, which offers Peter Salm’s wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us Faust in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe’s words.
Faust
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A magnificent drama shaped by themes of redemption and salvation, Faust is the magnum opus of Goethe, athe last true polymath to walk the eartha (George Eliot). As his journey continues, Faust follows Mephistopheles through ancient Greek mythology. Deeply smitten by the incomparably beautiful Helen of Troy, Faust marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his aimaginative longing to join poetically the Romantic medievalism of the Germanic West to the classical genius of the Greeks.a Faust, Part II even includes eerie premonitions of such modern phenomena as inflation and the creation of life by scientific synthesis.
Faust
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300068269
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This sparkling new translation of FAUST: PART TWO now affords English-language readers much of the pleasure found by readers of the original German. Award-winning translator Martin Greenberg casts Goethe's verse in a natural, vigorous, lucid English that preserves Goethe's poetic effects while accurately rendering the sense of the original lines.
Cliffs Notes on Goethe's Faust
Author: Robert MilchPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780822004790
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Includes an introduction to the life of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and includes notes on principla characters, summaries and commentaries, and more.
Goethe Faust Part Two
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher:
ISBN: 9780669288520
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Goethe and the Philosopher’s Stone
Author: Alice Pearl RaphaelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000768317
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Originally published in 1965, this study examines the concealed meanings in the second part of Faust, often considered obscure. It is of value not only to students of literature but also comparative religions, as it deals with Goethe’s knowledge of ancient myths, mysteries and Hellenistic religions. It is of value too, to those interested in alchemy as it traces the many alchemical references in Faust. The book gives a psychological interpretation of elements of Goethe’s personal life and work, which succeeds in making the man and the veiled references in his most profound work accessible to the modern reader.
Faust, Part One (AmazonClassics Edition)
Author: Johann Wolfgang GoethePublisher: AmazonClassics
ISBN: 9781542049221
Category : Good and evil
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents the first part of Geothe's classic play in which Mephistopheles and God make a bet that Faust cannot be tempted, but Faust is more than happy to exchange his soul after he dies for the myriad of pleasures the devil can provide him while he is alive.
The Second Part of Goethe's Faust
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description