title: Faust: Part Two (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
description: 'this translation seems to me a major advance on any previous one' Brian Fallon, The Irish Times<br /><br />'ample and lucid introduction and annotations, which contain some useful maps ... By publishing both Luke's translations and Boyle's critical masterpiece, OUP has performed an inestimable service to Anglo-German cultural understanding.' Times Literary Supplement<br /><br />'Oxford, in its superb World's Classics series, is offering us David Luke's version of Faust Part Two.' Albert Manguel, Observer
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  # Faust Part 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  
  
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  INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  
  
  Dedication
  
  
  PROLOGUE FOR THE THEATRE
  
  
  PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN
  
  
  PART I. NIGHT
  
  
  AUERBACH'S CELLAR IN LEIPZIG
  
  
  THE NEIGHBOUR'S HOUSE
  
  
  NIGHT. STREET BEFORE MARGARET'S DOOR
  
  
  WALPURGIS-NIGHT
  
  
  WALPURGIS-NIGHT'S DREAM
  
  
  A GLOOMY DAY. A PLAIN
  
  
  NIGHT. OPEN COUNTRY
  
  
  DUNGEON
  
  
  
  
  
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  Prepared by David Reed haradda@aol.com or davidr@inconnect.com
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  
  
  
  
  
  JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, the greatest of German men of letters,
  
  
  was born at Frank fort-on-the-Main, August 28, 1749. His father was a
  
  
  man of means and position, and he personally supervised the early
  
  
  education of his son. The young Goethe studied at the universities of
  
  
  Leipsic and Strasburg, and in 1772 entered upon the practise of law at
  
  
  Wetzlar. At the invitation of Karl August, Duke of Saxe