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  <title><![CDATA[Faust: Part Two (Oxford World's Classics)]]></title>
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  <default-description>Loosely connected with Part One and the German legend of Faust, Part Two is a dramatic epic rather than a strictly constructed drama.  It is conceived as an act of homage to classical Greek culture and inspired above all by the world of story-telling and myth at the heart of the Greek tradition, as well as owing some of its material to the Arabian Nights tales.   The restless and ruthless hero, advised by his cynical demon-companion Mephistopheles, visits classical Greece i search of the beautiful Helen of Troy. Returning to modern times, he seeks to crown his career by gaining control of the elements, and at his death is carried up into the unkown regions, still in pursuit of the `Eternal Feminine'.   David Luke's translation of Part One won the European Poetry Translation Prize.  Here he again imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readable - and actable - translation, supported by an introduction, full notes, and an index of classical mythology.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very funny book. From a chattering brilliant mind.  ...funny and brilliant as Melville.<br/><br/>I am reading this right now. It is hilarious, insane, wonderful. well not insane at all, just the mix/ meeting of the classical gods, pre-classical gods and our paltry contemporary icons comi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73858126">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Faust, Parts I &amp; II, are together considered the most important work of literature in the German language.  Unlike its predecessor, Christopher Marlowe's &quot;Dr. Faustus&quot;, where Faust sells his soul to the Devil, this one involves a wager between God and Mephistopheles (the Devil) about the v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40842807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Faust II is absolutely unreadable without heavily annotated editions and lots of commentary. An expansive, difficult text for which I only found a fondness after a graduate course and a paper. I suppose I am a better scholar for it, but not an easy or even enjoyable read for the most part. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once you understood that he basically is only awake in act 1 and 5, you got it. LOL Act 2-4 is weirdness on its highest level but I still liked it. Although I guess Faust I is better to understand but we only saw the movie adaption of it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Goethe unloads round after round of his education into your eyeballs.  Cannot be read without a second book explaining what is happening.  Lacks stage direction, to say the least.  The story is incredible.  The philosophy is intriguing.  And between Faust's workers paradise, Mephisto's love of the e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64592671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second part of <em>Faust</em> is very strange and random, but not in a good way (unlike Lewis Carroll or Douglas Adams). The majority of the book was a lot like the wedding between Titania and Oberon in Part One, which was rather unnecessary to the plot. Overall, I did not enjoy the book much at all, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2918258">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unlike the part one I struggled with this one.  I dont think I am smart enough to take Faust to the next level in part two.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic, good read. I liked this translation of the Faust play.]]></body>
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