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  1. Faust - Wikipedia

    In Goethe's reworking of the story over two hundred years later, Faust seduces a pious girl who then dies by suicide, but after many further adventures Faust is saved from damnation through the …

  2. Faust | Legend, Summary, Plays, Books, & Facts | Britannica

    Faust, hero of one of the most durable legends in Western folklore and literature, the story of a German necromancer or astrologer who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.

  3. Faust – The legend of Faust from the Renaissance times. The end of ...

    Faust or Faustus is a scholar who sells his soul to the Devil. Although fictional in literature, the legend is based on an astrologer and alchemist who lived in the area of northern Germany in the fifteenth …

  4. FAUST - Project Gutenberg

    In Faust, the iambic measure predominates; the style is compact; the many licenses which the author allows himself are all directed towards a shorter mode of construction.

  5. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Plot Summary | LitCharts

    Despairing and exhausted, Faust retires to an inner chamber of his palace, where Care, personified as a gray woman, assails him with the burden of his guilt. Even after she blinds him, however Faust …

  6. Faust - New World Encyclopedia

    The work was the basis for many literary works about Faust, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 's Faust Part One and Faust Part Two. The Faust Book seems to have been written during the latter …

  7. Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- A life of Writing - Dartmouth

    Faust is a tragic play written by Goethe and known as one of Germany’s greatest literature works. Part one consists of the story of a young man named Heinrich Faust, who is coerced into serving the devil …

  8. Faust - Myth Encyclopedia - god, story, legend, names, hero, evil

    The legend of Faust is well known in Germany and western Europe. The hero of the tale, a German magician named Faust, or Faustus, agreed to sell his soul to the devil in exchange for youth, …

  9. Faust Legends - University of Pittsburgh

    According to legend, there is a book, named Dr. Faust's Hell-Master, which teaches the art of controling spirits, even of making the devil subservient to oneself.

  10. Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – World Literature

    Faust You’ll ne’er attain it, save you know the feeling, Save from the soul it rises clear, Serene in primal strength, compelling