An edition of Doctor Faustus
(1947)
Doctor Faustus
the life of the German composer Adrian Leverkuḧn as told by a friend
by Thomas Mann
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A new translation of a 1948 novel by a German writer based on the Faust legend. The protagonist is Adrian Leverkuhn, a musical genius who trades his body and soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of triumph as the world's greatest composer.
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Fiction, History, Composers, German language materials, Entstehung des Doktor Faustus (Mann, Thomas), Political fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Germany, fiction, Fiction, political, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, German literature, German fictionPeople
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This translation originally published, Secker & Warburg, 1949.
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