The classic drama about a deal with the devil, in English translation. According to Wikipedia: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) was a German writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters . . . and the last true polymath to walk the earth."[2] Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism and science. Goethe's magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust.[3] Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther."