Goethe's Faust

Excerpt from Goethe's Faust: The First Part, the Text, With English Notes, Essays, and Verse Translations This attempt to facilitate for English readers the study of the masterpiece of German literature has been made under the following circumstances. On several occasions during the past few years the First Part of Faust had been selected as a text-book for the German studies of part of the Sixth Form at Winchester. It was felt by those who made the selection that although books of well-chosen extracts might possibly afford a better opportunity for gaining a knowledge of German words, and comedies might be better instruments for acquiring some colloquial acquaintance with the language, yet that neither were so likely to insure the best work of the best boys as a book which they knew to be regarded, and which they would soon come to regard themselves, as a "classic." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.