Faust - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Bayard Taylor (Translator), Johann Wolfgang Von Geothe (Author)Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly su ccessful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. Faust and the adjective Faustian imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.47 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: April 11, 2015 Show more