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Author
Publisher
Black's Readers Service
Pub. Date
[1950]
Language
English
Description
"A German play about a scholar making a pact with the devil in exchange for unlimited knowledge."--
Hailed as Germany's greatest contribution to world literature, Goethe's Faust drew upon a folktale and Marlowe's Dr. Faustus for inspiration. But in this epic version, Faust sells his soul not for magic powers but for a heightened sense of existence. Part One covers his pact with Mephistopheles and seduction of an innocent girl; Part Two relates his...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America"--
"A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions―not only in global...
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