FAUST by Goethe - FULL AudioBook | Greatest AudioBooks (Faust 1)

FAUST by Goethe - FULL AudioBook | Greatest AudioBooks (Faust 1) Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar but one dissatisfied with his life who therefore makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. Faust and the adjective Faustian imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term.[1] Translated as "fist" in High German, the name "Faust" suggests someone who resorts to extraordinary means to achieve goals, akin to if not actually involving force; it also implies unusual tenacity and persistence. The Faust of early books—as well as the ballads, dramas, movies and puppet-plays which grew out of them—is irrevocably damned because he prefers human to divine knowledge; "he laid the Holy Scriptures behind the door and under the bench, refused to be called doctor of Theology, but preferred to be styled doctor of Medicine". Plays and comic puppet theatre loosely based on this legend were popular throughout Germany in the 16th century, often reducing Faust and Mephistopheles to figures of vulgar fun. The story was popularised in England by Christopher Marlowe, who gave it a classic treatment in his play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. In Goethe's reworking of the story two hundred years later, Faust becomes a dissatisfied intellectual that yearns for "more than earthly meat and drink" in his life. (Summary adapted from wiki) ► https://www.GreatestAudioBooks.co ► FACEBOOK:   / greatestaudiobooks   ► TWITTER:   / gaudiobooks   💌► SUBSCRIBE to GreatestAudioBooks.co    / greatestaudiobooks   ‪@GreatestAudioBooks‬ READ along by clicking (CC) for Closed Caption Transcript! LISTEN to the entire audiobook for free! Chapter listing and length: 00 - 00:00 01 - Dedication, Prelude, Prologue, 00:15 Scene 1 First part - 20:40 length 003853 02 - Scene2 3 - 59:20 003852 03 - Scene 4 -- 003029 04 - Scenes 5 and 6 -- 003329 05 - Scenes 7 to 12 -- 003555 06 - Scenes 13 to 19 003040 07 - Scenes 20 and 21 002407 08 - Scenes 22 to 25 002633 #audiobook #audiobooks #freeaudiobooks #greatestaudiobooks #book #books#Faust This video: ©️ Copyright 2013. Greatest Audio Books. All Rights Reserved.