Faust (Bantam Classics) (Part I) (English and German Edition)
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German  literature,Fausthas made the legendary German alchemist one of  the central myths of the Western world.  Here indeed is a monumental  Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles,  that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a  moment he would wish to last forever.  Here, inFaust,Part  1, the tremendous versatility of Goethe's genius creates some of  the most beautiful passages in literature.  Here too we experience  Goethe's characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the  witches' Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen's tragic  fate.This newly revised edition, which offers Peter Salm's  wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on  facing pages, brings usFaustin a vital, rhythmic American  idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic  immediacy of Goethe's words.