A major new translation of one of the greatest dramatic-poetic works in all of German literature

A magnificent drama shaped by themes of redemption and salvation, Faust is the magnum opus of Goethe, ���he last true polymath to walk the earth���(George Eliot). As his journey continues, Faust follows Mephistopheles through ancient Greek mythology. Deeply smitten by the incomparably beautiful Helen of Troy, Faust marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his ���maginative longing to join poetically the Romantic medievalism of the Germanic West to the classical genius of the Greeks.���Faust, Part II even includes eerie premonitions of such modern phenomena as inflation and the creation of life by scientific synthesis.