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Faust: Part Two

✍ Scribed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; David Luke

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Weight: 322 KB
Edition: 1
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

This is a new translation of Faust , Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust , Part I was the winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here, Luke expertly imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readable and actable translation which includes an introduction, full notes, and an index of classical mythology. **

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