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Romantic · Drama, poetry

Faust, Parts One and Two

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. A scholar bargains with Mephistopheles in a vast drama of desire, guilt, modernity, creation, and redemption.

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Date
1808 / 1832
Origin
Germany
Era
Romantic
Genre
Drama, poetry
Difficulty
Challenging
Length
Long
Collection
The Western Canon

Subjects and themes

KnowledgeStrivingTemptation

Why it matters

A scholar bargains with Mephistopheles in a vast drama of desire, guilt, modernity, creation, and redemption.

This work is included in the collection on the basis of great books / bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.

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Essential 100

A century of works that gives the broadest useful first view of the Western canon. 100 books · Advanced.