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GOETHE J W VON FAUST PART ONE

The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century  a time of transition between medieval and
modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the
wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact  selling his soul for the
devil's greater knowledge  over a period of 60 years he produced one of the greatest dramatic
and poetic masterpieces of European literature. David Luke's recent translation  specially
commissioned for The World's Classics series  has all the virtues of previous classic
translations of Faust  and none of their shortcomings. Cast in rhymed verse  following the
original  it preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without sacrifice to archaism or
over-modern idiom. It is as near an `equivalent' rendering of the German as has been achieved.
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