Goethe's Faust Author:Walter Kaufmann "This is the best translation of 'Faust' that I have read. Printed on the right hand page, parallel with the German text on the left, it passes a simple test. One can turn from the German to the English without too much of a jolt. I could even, over stretches, read passages of the translation that I know very well in the original without disc... more »overing anything that seemed lacking in the German."
by Stephen Spender in the New York Times Book Review« less