Faust: Parts I and II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1964 PAPERBCK] • Washington Square

Faust: A Tragedy (Parts I and II) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 

Translated in the original meters by Bayard Taylor • Introduction by Anthony Sconna

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1964] WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS

Scarce mass market paperbakc edition with great cover art.

Vintage paperback in very good condition.  

Clean tight copy with some shelf / edge wear to cover.  

*Signature of orig. owner to top of first page. 

Reads as new with some inevitable tanning to pages.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust 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 Faust, 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.