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Solomonic Magic & the Grimoires

The Fortunes of Faust

by E. M. Butler

The final volume of Eliza Marian Butler's trilogy on the magus, tracing the Faust legend from the sixteenth-century Faustbuch through puppet plays, Marlowe, Goethe, Thomas Mann and beyond. Butler also examines the magical 'Faust books' and Höllenzwang texts that circulated under his name. Learned and stylish, it shows how the legend of the scholar who bargains with a demon shaped European ideas about magic and the grimoires.

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