# Faust: a Tragedy \[part 1\], Translated from the German of Goethe

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

"Faust: a Tragedy \[part 1\]" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a tragic play first published in 1808. A disillusioned scholar named Faust makes a fateful pact with Mephistopheles, an agent of the Devil: if Mephistopheles can satisfy him completely, Faust's soul belongs to Hell. Transformed into a young man, Faust pursues the innocent Gretchen, setting off a chain of seduction, tragedy, and destruction that tests the boundaries between damnation and salvation in what many consider German literature's greatest work. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Translator: Charles Timothy Brooks
- Subjects: German poetry -- Translations into English; Legends -- Germany -- Drama; Faust, -approximately 1540 -- Drama; Magicians -- Drama

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