The English Faust Book

Author : John Henry Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521175036
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Faust Book written by John Henry Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1994 scholarly edition of a major Renaissance text linked with Marlowe's Dr Faustus.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553213482
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faust written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1988-07-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This authoritative edition, which offers Peter Salm’s wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us Faust in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe’s words.

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragicall History of D. Faustus... written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1604 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781475181678
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faust in Plain and Simple English written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've heard the term "Sell Your Soul to the Devil." It sounds very rock and roll, right? Wrong! It actually comes from Goethe's Faust--a tragic work about a man who sells his soul. The themes and plot of Faust seems right out of a modern horror novel--if you can understand it! Unlike most archaic translations of Faust, BookCaps puts a fresh spin on Goethe's classic by using language modern readers won't struggle to make sense of. The original English text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

Author : Şeyda Sivrioğlu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443862622
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Faustus Myth in the English Novel written by Şeyda Sivrioğlu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Faustus myth, before being identified as a myth, was the folktale of a man named Faustus who lived in Germany. Underneath the popularity of this myth lies the basic human instinct to trespass the limits of traditional knowledge in pursuit of self-definition, authentic knowledge and power. This search and transgression also involve the desire to exercise the right of making free authentic choices. Faustus represents universal issues that are relevant for all human beings, which explains the reason why he has acquired mythic stature. Indeed, a most persistent myth has evolved, the appeal of which has led one writer after the other to reshape it. After his story became popular, he reappeared, even in contemporary culture, in different art forms such as literature, both high-brow and popular, including comics, the ballet and the opera. The real historical Faustus came onto the scene as a scholar and persistently reappeared in literature assuming different identities which, however, shared basically the same qualities. This book demonstrates and offers different perspectives to versions of the Faustus myth in literature: Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Goethe’s Faust and John Fowles’ The Magus. The Faustus Myth is a cycle which starts and ends in tragic circumstances in Christopher Marlowe’s Renaissance Faustus, in salvation in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, and in meaninglessness, ambiguous collapses in John Fowles’ existentialist Nicholas Urfe.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goethe's Faust written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780872207295
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Faustus written by Christopher Marlowe and published by Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the 'A' text, with supporting documents that include selections from The English Life of Faustus, contemporary testimonies to Marlowe's 'atheism', and passages from the 'B' text, offers a startling new context in which to understand this play, its comedy, and its tawdry representation of demonic magic. In this light, argues Wootton, Marlowe's Faustus both reflects the centrality of comedy to the Faust legend and plays an ambiguous role in a crucial intellectual debate of the playwright's time.

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
ISBN 13 : 1722524804
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Faustus written by Christopher Marlowe and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Faustus is a great Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlow originally published in 1600. The story is based on an earlier anonymous classic German legend involving worldly ambition, black magic and surrender to the devil. It remains one of the most famous plays of the English Renaissance. Dr. John Faustus, a brilliant, well-respected German doctor grows dissatisfied with the limits of human knowledge - logic, medicine, law, and religion, and decides that he has learned all that can be learned by conventional means. What is left for him, he thinks, but magic. His friends instruct him in the black arts, and he begins his new career as a magician by summoning up Mephastophilis, a devil. Despite Mephastophilis’s warnings about the horrors of hell, Faustus tells the devil to return to his master, Lucifer, with an offer of Faustus’s soul in exchange for twenty-four years of service from Mephastophilis. On the final night before the expiration of the twenty-four years, Faustus is overcome by fear and remorse. He begs for mercy, but it is too late. At midnight, a host of devils appears and carries his soul off to hell. Marlowe’s dramatic interpretation of the Faust legend is a theatrical masterpiece. With immense poetic skill, and psychological insight that greatly influenced the works of William Shakespeare and other dramatists, Dr. Faustus combines soaring poetry, psychological depth, and grand stage spectacle. Marlowe created powerful scenes that invest the work with tragic dignity, among them the doomed man’s calling upon Christ to save him and his ultimate rejection of salvation for the embrace of Helen of Troy.

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781543146431
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era, several years later.The powerful effect of early productions of the play is indicated by the legends that quickly accrued around them-that actual devils once appeared on the stage during a performance, "to the great amazement of both the actors and spectators", a sight that was said to have driven some spectators mad.

Author : Sextus Julius Frontinus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.J2/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategematicon written by Sextus Julius Frontinus and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: