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FAUST, JOHANN

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From: Young Students Learning Library
Date: 19960101
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A man named Georg Faustus lived in Germany during the early 1500s. He was a magician and fortune-teller, and his tricks were so clever that people began to tell strange stories about him. The stories continued after Faustus died and, somehow, he began to be called Johann Faust. The basic story, or legend, said that Faust traded his soul to the devil in return for 24 years of magic powers. Other legends emerged about him.

Many people have been fascinated by his legend. Christopher Marlowe (an English poet), Charles François Gounod and Louis-Hector Berlioz (two French ...

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