Faust

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature <b>Faust</b><i> </i>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 <b>Faust</b><i> </i>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. <p/>This authoritative edition which offers Peter Salm's wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages brings us <b>Faust</b> in a vital rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur integrity and poetic immediacy of Goethe's words.