Penguin Classics: Faust Part 1

Seven Wonders Of The World.

'Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time,
The whirl of accident: may pain and pleasure,
Success and failure, shift as they will -
It's only action that can make a man'

Based on the fable of a man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, 'Faust' became the life work of Germany's greatest poet, Goethe. It is a dramatic poem charting the life of a deeply flawed individual and his fight against despair and the nihilism of the Devil.