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Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand. As Max Brand, he also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare for a series of pulp fiction stories. [ 1 ]
The tale of Faust bears many similarities to the Theophilus legend recorded in the 13th century writer Gautier de Coincy's Les Miracles de la Sainte Vierge. Here, a saintly figure makes a bargain with the keeper of the infernal world but is rescued from paying his debt to society through the mercy of the Blessed Virgin . [ 4 ]
Max Brand (1892–1944), (pseudonym of Frederick Schiller Faust) Lyle Brandt (1951–2021), (pseudonym of Michael Newton) Peter Brandvold, (pseudonym, Frank Leslie) Matt Braun (born 1932) Dee Brown (1908–2002) Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) Walter Noble Burns (1866–1932)
Pan Twardowski oder Der Polnische Faust [Pan Twardowski or The Polish Faust], a novel by Matthias Werner Kruse (1981); Dzieje Mistrza Twardowskiego (The Story of Master Twardowski), a film by Krzysztof Gradowski (1995). Twardowsky, a short sci-fi film from Polish Legends series directed by Tomasz Bagiński (2015) [4]
An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer.
Kevin Donoghue (born 1967), author of From The Devil We Came, The Adventures of Robyn Nudd, The Rise of Germania and Svengali Junior; Carole Nelson Douglas (1944–2021), author of the Sword and Circlet, Taliswoman, and Delilah Street series as well as Irene Adler Sherlockian suspense novels; Sara Douglass (1957–2011), author of Wayfarer ...
The name appears in the late-sixteenth-century Faust chapbooks – stories concerning the life of Johann Georg Faust, written by an anonymous German author. In the 1725 version, which Goethe read, Mephostophiles is a devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by Faust in a wood outside Wittenberg. From the chapbooks, the name entered Faustian ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary , political , and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.