Faust I & II, Volume 2 : Goethe's Collected Works - Updated Edition /
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Faust I & II, Volume 2 : Goethe's Collected Works - Updated Edition / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Stuart Atkins. - Updated edition with a New Foreword - 1 online resource - Princeton Classics ; 5 .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- FAUST: A Tragedy -- PART ONE OF THE TRAGEDY -- PART TWO OF THE TRAGEDY in Five Acts -- CHRONOLOGY OF THE COMPOSITION OF FAUST: NOTES -- GOETHE'S FAUST AND THE PRESENT TRANSLATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- EXPLANATORY NOTES
One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man's pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, and a wealth of poetic and theatrical traditions. What results is a tour de force illustrating Goethe's own moral and artistic development, and a symbolic, cautionary tale of Western humanity striving restlessly and ruthlessly for progress.Capturing the sense, poetic variety, and tonal range of the German original in present-day English, Stuart Atkins's translation presents the formal and rhythmic dexterity of Faust in all its richness and beauty, without recourse to archaisms or interpretive elaborations.Featuring a new introduction by David Wellbery, this Princeton Classics edition of Faust is the definitive English version of a timeless masterpiece.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691162294 9781400851676
10.1515/9781400851676 doi
POETRY / European / General.
PN57.F3 / .G648 2014eb
809.93351
Faust I & II, Volume 2 : Goethe's Collected Works - Updated Edition / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Stuart Atkins. - Updated edition with a New Foreword - 1 online resource - Princeton Classics ; 5 .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- FAUST: A Tragedy -- PART ONE OF THE TRAGEDY -- PART TWO OF THE TRAGEDY in Five Acts -- CHRONOLOGY OF THE COMPOSITION OF FAUST: NOTES -- GOETHE'S FAUST AND THE PRESENT TRANSLATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- EXPLANATORY NOTES
One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man's pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, and a wealth of poetic and theatrical traditions. What results is a tour de force illustrating Goethe's own moral and artistic development, and a symbolic, cautionary tale of Western humanity striving restlessly and ruthlessly for progress.Capturing the sense, poetic variety, and tonal range of the German original in present-day English, Stuart Atkins's translation presents the formal and rhythmic dexterity of Faust in all its richness and beauty, without recourse to archaisms or interpretive elaborations.Featuring a new introduction by David Wellbery, this Princeton Classics edition of Faust is the definitive English version of a timeless masterpiece.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691162294 9781400851676
10.1515/9781400851676 doi
POETRY / European / General.
PN57.F3 / .G648 2014eb
809.93351