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. 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. In Faust the tremendous versatility of Goethe's genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in 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...
Translated into English, in the original metres, by
Bayard Taylor
With illustrations by Harry Clarke
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages.
Faust Part One takes place in multiple settings, the first of which is heaven. Mephistopheles makes a bet with God: he says that he can lure God's favourite human...
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Translated into English, in the original metres, by
The young men were gay, and full of spirits. Albert is arrived. Were he the best and most perfect of men, were I in every respect his inferior, it would not be less insupportable to me to see him in possession of so many charms, so many perfections. I have seen him, my dear friend; I have seen this happy husband; he is a well-bred worthy man, whom one cannot help liking. How things have since changed Then, in happy ignorance, I languished after a world I did not know, and where I hoped to find all the enjoyments my heart so often felt the want of; and now I was returned from that world so...
The young men were gay, and full of spirits. Albert is arrived. Were he the best and most perfect of men, were I in every respect his inferior, it wou...
