Faust: a Tragedy [part 1], Translated from the German of Goethe
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Faust: a Tragedy [part 1], Translated from the German of Goethe

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Faust: a Tragedy [part 1]" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a tragic play first published in 1808. A disillusioned scholar named Faust makes a fateful pact with Mephistopheles, an agent of the Devil: if Mephistopheles can satisfy him completely, Faust's soul belongs to Hell. Transformed into a young man, Faust pursues the innocent Gretchen, setting off a chain of seduction, tragedy, and destruction that tests the boundaries between damnation and salvation in what many consider German literature's greatest work. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Translated by Charles Timothy Brooks. Reading ease score: 83.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. Originally issued 2004-12-25. Transcribed by Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Bidwell and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This work is in the public domain in the United States. Sourced from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14460).
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Faust: a Tragedy [part 1], Translated from the German of Goethe

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