Product Description

Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over 60 years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development. Faust is made available to the English reader in a completely new translation that communicates both its poetic variety and its many levels of tone. The language is present-day English, and Goethe's formal and rhythmic variety is reproduced in all its richness.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #277312 in Books
• Published on: 1994-07-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 344 pages

Customer Reviews

It's book not for describing but for READING
If you can dive in reading as if book pages were crystal water, if you can fall in love with Romeo and dream about walking in the wood with Robin Hood - it is the book for you. Just try not to think that tomorrow you'll have interview and your child can't get through arithmetics... Take some time for yourself, cup of coffee and this book. The mood of this book is great for stormy weather and dark room.
I don't think there is a person who would dislike this book. If you did - think: maybe it wasn't good time for reading? Maybe you read it in bus while going to (or even worth - from) work? Try again in slow tempo and somewhat romantic mood.

Forbidden Knowledge
Faust is an age-old tale of the search for knowledge and whether that knowledge should be forbidden. Are there some things we are better off not knowing? Faust decides to go out and give up everything in his pursuit for knowledge. Was it worth it?