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FaustPart 1

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'Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, The whirl of accident: may pain and pleasure, Success and failure, shift as they will - It's only action that can make a man.' Based on the fable of a man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, FAUST became the life work of Germany's greatest poet, Goethe.

It is a dramatic poem charting the life of a deeply flawed individual and his fight against despair and the nihilism of the Devil.

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Product Details
Penguin
0140448233 / 9780140448238
Paperback
832.6
08/02/2002
England
English
viii, 319 p. : ill.
22 cm
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This translation originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.