Klinger’s 1791 novel makes Faust the inventor of printing, who sells his soul to the devil Leviathan and travels with him through the courts and churches of Europe. Every good deed Faust attempts produces fresh misery, and the devil uses each scene of vice and crime to argue against the goodness of God and man.
A fierce Enlightenment satire, in the vigorous 1825 translation by George Borrow, for readers of Goethe and Marlowe. Download the free EPUB.