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Harvard Classics, Vol. 19, Part 1
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.
Autobiography. Book xviii. Truth and Beauty.
J.W. von Goethe

Harvard Classics, Vol. 19, Part 1

The Tragedy of Faust Part I

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe’s retelling of the classic Faust legend and the crowning achievement of his literary output. Faust sells his soul to the devil for knowledge.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

Dramatis Personæ
TRANSLATED BY ANNA SWANWICK

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

Introductory Note
Dedication
Prologue for the Theatre
Prologue in Heaven
Lines 1–499
Lines 500–999
Lines 1000–1499
Lines 1500–1999
Lines 2000–2499
Lines 2500–2999
Lines 3000–3499
Lines 3500–3999
Lines 4000–4429