Faust, Part One: A New Translation with Illustrations

The original tale of moral destruction, in a brand-new translation: Faust is a man torn between the urges of the living world and the significance of moral living. He feels nothing, he lives for nothing, and thus engages in a wager with Mephistopheles, the devil himself. Goethe’s master work shares the deep complexity of a human life, rife with pain, mistakes and dynamic complexity.

With Faust, the lushly lyrical and philosophically brilliant drama on which the poet spent almost his entire...