Author(s): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Classic Books

'The hour is come, as master of my fate, To prove in man the stature of a god' The medieval myth of Faust?s pact with the devil preoccupied Goethe for most of his working life and in the thirty years during which he worked on Faust, Part One he reshaped the legend to dramatize his own very personal concerns as a poet.