{"product_id":"faust-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393972825","title":"Faust: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"This edition presents Parts I and II complete. Cyrus Hamlin provides essential supporting material for this difficult text, and his Interpretive Notes have been expanded and reset in larger, easy-to-read type. \"Comments by Contemporaries\" includes short pieces by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. \"Modern Criticism\"--comprised of ten essays newly added to the Second Edition--presents the perspectives of Stuart Atkins, Jaroslav Pelikan, Benjamin Bennett, Franco Moretti, Friedrich A. Kittler, Neil M. Flax, Marc Shell, Jane Brown, Hans Rudolf Vaget, and Marshall Berman. A Selected Bibliography is included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoethe, Johann Wolfgang Von:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJohann Wolfgang von Goethe\u003c\/strong\u003e (1749-1832) perhaps comes as close as any man to deserving the title of universal genius. Poet, dramatist, critic, scientist, administrator and novelist, he was born at Frankfurt-am-Main in 1749, the son of well-to-do parents with intellectual interests; and he studied at the University of Leipzig and at Strassburg, where he wrote a play which initiated the important \u003cem\u003eSturm und Drang\u003c\/em\u003e movement. During the next five years he practiced law in Frankfurt and wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Sorrows of Young Werther\u003c\/em\u003e, a remarkable novel autobiographical of one side of Goethe's nature. In 1775 he went to visit the court of the young Duke of Weimar, and, except for an extended journey to Italy a decade later, stayed there the rest of his life, filling at one time or another all the major posts in the Weimar government. Here a close friendship with Schiller developed, and here he conducted important scientific experiments and published a steady stream of books of the highest order and in many different forms. He became the director of the Weimar Theatre in 1791 and made it the most famous in Europe. His life held a number of ardent loves, which he celebrated in lyrics that are compared to Shakespeare's, and in 1806 he married Christiane Vulpius whom he had loved for many years. In later life Goethe became a generous patron of younger writers, including Byron and Carlyle. In 1790 he published the first version of his life work as \u003cem\u003eFaust, a Fragment\u003c\/em\u003e, but Part I of the completed \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e did not appear until 1808, while Part II was finished and published only a few months before Goethe's death in 1832.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamlin, Cyrus:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eCyrus Hamlin\u003c\/strong\u003e is Chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArndt, Walter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eWalter Arndt\u003c\/strong\u003e is Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanties, Emeritus, at Dartmouth College. His translation of Pushkin's \u003cem\u003eEugene Onegin\u003c\/em\u003e was awarded the Bollingen Prize.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514121097490,"sku":"9780393972825","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_df3a7376-2e7b-4e63-b5e7-50323ceb37fb.jpg?v=1730973577","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/faust-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393972825","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}