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  2. Goethe's Faust - Wikipedia

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    Goethe finished writing Faust, Part Two in 1831; it was published posthumously the following year. In contrast to Faust, Part One, the focus here is no longer on the soul of Faust, which has been sold to the devil, but rather on social phenomena such as psychology, history and politics, in addition to mystical and philosophical topics. The ...

  3. Faust - Wikipedia

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    In the first part, Mephistopheles leads Faust through experiences that culminate in a lustful relationship with Gretchen, an innocent young woman. Gretchen and her family are destroyed by Mephistopheles' deceptions and Faust's desires. Part one of the story ends in tragedy for Faust, as Gretchen is saved but Faust is left to grieve in shame.

  4. Faust, Part One - Wikipedia

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    Faust: A Tragedy (German: Faust. Eine Tragödie, pronounced [faʊ̯st ˈaɪ̯nə tʁaˈɡøːdi̯ə] ⓘ, or Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust. The tragedy's first part]) is the first part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German literature. [1] It was first published ...

  5. Historia von D. Johann Fausten (chapbook) - Wikipedia

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    Frontispiece of the Historia von D. Johann Fausten, published in 1587 by Johann Spies. Historia von D. Johann Fausten, the first "Faust book", is a chapbook of stories concerning the life of Johann Georg Faust, written by an anonymous German author.

  6. Mephistopheles - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Faust, Part Two - Wikipedia

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    Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy (German: Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil in fünf Akten.) is the second part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.It was published in 1832, the year of Goethe's death.

  8. Works based on Faust - Wikipedia

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    Gotthold Lessing's Doktor Faust, mentioned in a contribution to a magazine (1759), but otherwise left unfinished and collected and published posthumously (1784) in its original, incomplete form; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1806–1832) Christian Dietrich Grabbe's Don Juan und Faust (1829) Alexander Pushkin's A scene from Faust (1830)

  9. Faust (novella) - Wikipedia

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    Faust (Russian: Фауст, Faust) is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, written in 1856 and published in the October issue of the Sovremennik magazine in the same year. [1] The story draws inspiration from Goethe's Faust , both as a tangible book around which the narrative revolves, and thematically.