Goethe's Faust Translated by Anna Swanwick. Edited, With Introduction and Bibliography by Karl Breul (GT964)

Published 1914: Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original brown embossed cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 437 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled edges. Boards slightly rubbed with time and bumped on the corners and spine ends consistent with age. Overall a nice a firm compact pocket-size. Scarce. (GT964)

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'Faust' is an atmospheric tragic play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, it is considered to be Goethe's masterpiece and is considered by some scholars to be one of the greatest works in German literature.

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. [Google Books]