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In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his ''imaginative longing to join poetically the Romantic Medievalism of the germanic West to the classical genius of the Greeks''. Further to the themes of redemption and salvation in this great drama, are Goethe''s eerie premonitions of modern phenomena such as inflation and the creation of life by scientific synthesis.

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Faust The Second Part of the Tragedy

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 30 April 2009
      ISBN-13 9780140449020
      978-0140449020
      ISBN-10 0140449027
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      Poetry Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Books by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his ''imaginative longing to join poetically the Romantic Medievalism of the germanic West to the classical genius of the Greeks''. Further to the themes of redemption and salvation in this great drama, are Goethe''s eerie premonitions of modern phenomena such as inflation and the creation of life by scientific synthesis.

      For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary aut

      Trade Review
      " One of those great works of literature into which a writer has been able to combine his ranging preoccupations and understanding as he worked."
      -A. S. Byatt, from the Preface

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