Goethe's Faust (Part One) translated by Bertram Jessup [HARDCOVER RE-ISSUE] 1958 • The Philosophical Library

Faust (Part One) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe newly translated by Bertram Jessup

VINTAGE HARDCOVER RE-ISSUE [1958] THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY

Smaller sized hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket has a few sealed tears on rear; some creasing and worn edges.  Trace pencil marking on top of spine. Otherwise clean and in tact; housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is near mint; pristine baby blue boards.  Pages look and read like new. 

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.