An edition of Doctor Faustus
(1947)
Doktor Faustus
das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn
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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Reproduced from typewritten copy.
Also issued by the publisher in the "Stockholmer Gesamtausgabe" of the author's works. This first issue of 50 copies, numb. and signed by the author, was pub. in the U.S. in order to secure American copyright.
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