Doctor Faustus
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545 pages
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.
ISBN: 9780679600428
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Christopher Hitchens
Author"The narrator of Doctor Faustus is relating his story against the clock, as the German homeland finds itself pulverized and encircled in the spring of 1945."
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