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The Sources of the Faust Tradition from Simon Magus to LessingPhilip Mason Palmer and Robert Pattison More

Solomonic Magic & the Grimoires

The Sources of the Faust Tradition from Simon Magus to Lessing

by Philip Mason Palmer and Robert Pattison More

An anthology of texts in English translation that trace the legend of the magician who sells his soul, from Simon Magus, Cyprian and Theophilus to the 1587 Faust book, Marlowe and the German puppet plays. Its introductions remain a convenient guide to how the pact story developed before Goethe.

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