TY - BOOK AU - Goethe,Johann Wolfgang von TI - Faust — Part 1 AV - PT PY - 2002/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - German poetry -- Translations into English KW - Legends -- Germany -- Drama KW - Faust, -approximately 1540 -- Drama KW - Magicians -- Drama N1 - Translation of: Faust, 1. Theil; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust,_Part_One; Release date is 2002-01-01; Prepared by David Reed; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Faust — Part 1" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a tragic play first published in 1808. A scholar named Dr. Faust, dissatisfied with conventional knowledge, makes a dangerous pact with Mephistopheles, an agent of the Devil. In exchange for earthly fulfillment, Faust risks his soul. The wager begins in Heaven itself, where God allows the devil to test his favorite scholar. What follows is a journey through taverns, witchcraft, and forbidden love, as Faust pursues satisfaction and encounters the innocent Gretchen, whose fate becomes tragically entwined with his own desperate quest. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3023 ER -