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Title: Faustus
his Life, Death, and Doom

Author: Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger

Release Date: May 14, 2008 [eBook #25468]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1864 W. Kent and Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

FAUSTUS:
HIS
LIFE, DEATH, AND DOOM.

A ROMANCE IN PROSE.

Translated from the German.

"Speed thee, speed thee,
Liberty lead thee,
Many this night shall hearken and heed thee.
Far abroad,
Demi-god,
Who shall appal thee!
Javal, or devil, or what else we call thee."

LONDON:
W. KENT AND CO., PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1864.

LONDON:
ROBSON AND LEVEY, PRINTERS, GREAT NEW STREET,
FETTER LANE.

THE TRANSLATOR TO THE PUBLIC.

The publication of the present volume may at first sight appear to
require some brief explanation from the Translator, inasmuch as the
character of the incidents may justify such an expectation on the part of
the reader. It is therefore necessary to state, that although strange
scenes of vice and crime are here exhibited, it is in the hope that they
may serve as beacons, to guide the ignorant and unwary from the shoals on
which they might otherwise be wrecked.

The work, when considered as a whole, is strictly moral. The Catholic
priest is not praised for burning his fellow-creature at an _auto-da-fe_,
and for wallowing in licentiousness; nor is the Calvinist commended for
his unrelenting malignity to all those whose tenets are different from
his own, and for crying down the most innocent pleasures and relaxations
which a bountiful and just God has been pleased to place within the reach
of his earthly children.

The tyrant and the oppressor of mankind will here find himself depicted
in his proper col