Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles.
The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever.
But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death.
In this first part of Goethe's great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust.
Penguin Books Faust: the first part of the tragedy, paperback/johann wolfgang von goethe
