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Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Start date: March 1, 2018

Finish date: March 31, 2018

Why we're reading this: March 2018 Old School Group Read
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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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Apr 14, 2018 Melanti rated it really liked it

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I enjoyed this quite a bit! Goethe's take on Faust is taken a great deal more seriously than Marlowe's version.

I wasn't a huge fan of the (heavily abridged) Part 2, though.

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Jun 12, 2014 Melanti rated it did not like it · review of another edition

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Terrible narration!

I was having trouble parsing the play to begin with which is one of the reasons I decided to listen to an audio version. From experience with Shakespeare, I know that sometimes you just have to listen to "catch" the rhythm and meaning.

But listening to the narration by Tim Habeger, I got the sense that he didn't understand it either. While he wasn't quite monotone, his inflection wasn't matching up with the what the text was trying to say. It seemed to me like he was reading th ...more

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