Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Norton Critical Edition, Second Edition, translated by Walter Arndt, edited by Cyrus Hamlin)

Goethe's masterpiece follows the scholar Faust, who has mastered every field of learning and found no satisfaction in any of them, as he strikes a wager with the devil Mephistopheles. Part I tells of his doomed love for Gretchen; Part II carries him through the imperial court, classical antiquity and a vast land-reclamation project toward his final redemption. This Norton Critical Edition presents both parts complete in Walter Arndt's verse translation, which keeps close to the sense of the German while following Goethe's shifting metres and rhyme schemes. Cyrus Hamlin's supporting material includes expanded interpretive notes, comments by contemporaries such as Emerson, Carlyle and Margaret Fuller, ten modern critical essays added for the second edition, and a selected bibliography. 752 pages.

Condition: Paperback. Used. The cover shows some creases and signs of wear; the interior pages are in excellent condition.