Agua Viva

Agua Viva
Author: Clarice Lispector
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1989
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780816617821

Discusses life, time, beauty, experience, meaning, music, and art.

Faust

Faust
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1949
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140440126

A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of Faust is included with Goethe's classic tale about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil.

The Chronology of Water

The Chronology of Water
Author: Lidia Yuknavitch
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0983304904

This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose. What follows is promiscuous sex with both men and women, some of them famous, and some of it S&M, and Lidia discovers the power of her sexuality to help her forget her pain. The forgetting doesn’t last, though, and it is her hard-earned career as a writer and a teacher, and the love of her husband and son, that ultimately create the life she needs to survive.

Music in Goethe's Faust

Music in Goethe's Faust
Author: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2017
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1783272007

Goethe's Faust, a work which has attracted the attention of composers since the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the evolution of vocal, operatic and instrumental repertoire in the nineteenth century, hashad a seminal impact in musical realms.

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2017-02-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781543146431

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era, several years later.The powerful effect of early productions of the play is indicated by the legends that quickly accrued around them-that actual devils once appeared on the stage during a performance, "to the great amazement of both the actors and spectators", a sight that was said to have driven some spectators mad.

Faust, Part I

Faust, Part I
Author: Goethe
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2005-07-28
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0141906952

Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. 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 is living a life beyond his study and - in rejuvenated form - winning the love of the charming and beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire and self-delusion, Faust, served by the devil, heads inexorably towards destruction.

Goethe: Faust Part One

Goethe: Faust Part One
Author: Nicholas Boyle
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1987
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521314121

Offers a survey of early Faust stories and a detailed reading of Faust Part One.

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre:
ISBN:

Paradise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it was written. This edition aims to bring the poem as fully alive to a modern reader as it would have been to Milton's contemporaries. It provides a newly edited text of the 1674 edition of the poem-the last of Milton's lifetime-with carefully modernized spelling and punctuation.

Faust

Faust
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780374164775

A man living in sixteeth-century Germany sells his soul to the devil.