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Faust - A tragedy - cover

Faust - A tragedy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Translator Charles Timothy Brooks

Publisher: Ktoczyta.pl

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Summary

The great Goethe invented his Faust when he was a little over twenty years old, and completed the tragedy a few months before his death. This work was the result of the philosophical and artistic searches of the author – a poet, playwright, prose writer, the greatest scientist of his time, a man of encyclopedic knowledge. The hero of the tragedy, Dr. Johann Faust, lived in the first half of the 16th century and was known as a magician and a warlock who, having rejected modern science and religion, sold his soul to the devil.
Available since: 05/06/2019.
Print length: 134 pages.

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