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Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Start date: March 1, 2015

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Jun 06, 2015 Laura rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Title: Faust

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Illustrator: Eugène Delacroix

Translator: Albert Stapfer

Release Date: February 19, 2017 [EBook #54202]

Language: French

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Mar 20, 2015 Pat Gerber-Relf rated it really liked it

Yes well reading Goethe in original german in not the problem, but it was one big mega poem. Doing business with Mephistopheles is not everyone's thing I suppose and eventually everyone died, some went up and one went down (Faust). It was 200 pages, but Faust only met Gretchen on page 110 I think, so what was he doing otherwise. Just having converstions with the devil. Sorry Goethe, you are a great writer, but I am still thinking about it. Should perhaps read it again? I decided to read it becau ...more

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