{"product_id":"faust-part-ii-by-goethe-9780140449020","title":"Faust, Part II","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA major new translation of Goethe's \u003cem\u003eFaust, Part Two\u003c\/em\u003e - one of the greatest dramatic-poetic works in all of German literature - by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this sequel to \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his 'imaginative longing to join poetically the Romantic Medievalism of the Germanic West to the classical genius of the Greeks'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFurther to the themes of redemption and salvation in this great drama are Goethe's eerie premonitions of modern phenomena such as inflation and the creation of life by scientific synthesis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46530420572396,"sku":"9780140449020","price":29.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27377973482237.jpg?v=1749256784","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/faust-part-ii-by-goethe-9780140449020","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}