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The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part... read more

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First Sentence

Friends, who so many times before In need and woe have stood by me, What do you think in Germany The prospects for our business are?

Authors & Contributors

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author)
  2. J. W. VonGoethe

Other Contributors:

  1. Albert G. Goethe (Translator)
  2. Rudolf Steiner (Translator)
  3. Peter Sis (Translator)
  4. Nicholas Boyle (Translator)
  5. Walter Arnold Kaufmann (Translator)
  6. Louis MacNeice (Translator)
 

Books with Additional Background Information

   
  • Faust, Parts 1 and 2 (Cliffs Notes)

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