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This book is based on Faust: A Tragedy (Norton Critical Editions) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Walter Arndt's translation of Faust reproduces the sense of the German original and Goethe's enormously varied metrics and rhyme schemes. This edition presents Parts I and II complete. Cyrus Hamlin provides essential supporting material for this difficult text, and his Interpretive... read more
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“What I possess, I See far distant lying,And what i lost, grows real and undying.”
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“A mind, once formed, is never suited after;One yet in growth will ever grateful be.”
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“What's left undone today, Tomorrow will not do.”
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“Of suns and worlds I've nothing to be quoted;How men torment themselves, is all I've noted.”
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“He calls it Reason--thence his power's increased,To be far beastlier than any beast.”
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“These ten years long, with many woes,I've led my scholars by the nose,--And see, that nothing can be known!THAT knowledge cuts me to the bone.”
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“Naught so insipid in the world I findAs a devil in despair.”
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“The wind is hushed, the star shoots by.The dreary moon forsakes the sky;The magic notes, like spark on spark,Drizzle, whistling through the dark.”
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This book is in Norton Critical Editions. (edition-based publisher list)
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author)
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Original Language: German
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Page Count: 752
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- Dewey: 832.6
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