Doctor Faustus
Subtitle: the life of the German composer, Adrian Leverkühn
By: as told by a friend. Tr. from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter.
Contributors: Lowe-Porter, H. T. 1876-1963, tr.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Published: 1948
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
Subjects: Germany -- History -- 1789-1900 -- Fiction; Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Description: A new translation of a 1948 novel by a German writer based on the Faust legend. The protagonist is Adrian Leverkuhn, a musical genius who trades his body and soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of triumph as the world's greatest composer.