Faust - A Lyric Drama on Five Acts

Description: Faust - A Lyric Drama on Five Acts Good - Text Unmarked - Binding and Cover Clean and Tight - Ready to Ship Metropolitan Opera House Grand Opera, General Manager -- Edward Johnson By -- Charles Gounod, Book from Goethe's poem by -- Charles Barbier and Michel Carre, From Faust by -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Published by -- Fred Rullman Inc., [19--?], New York, Staple Bound, Text in French and English on 53 Facing Pages, Musical Notation, 10" X 6.75" X .12", 3 oz. [ARGUMENT]"FAUST, (...) summons to his aid the Spirit of Evil, who appears to him under the form of Mephistopheles. Through the supernatural power of the latter, Faust is straightway restored to youth, with all its passions and illusions, and is at the same time endowed with personal beauty and luxurious garb. Mephistopheles, as in a vision, reveals to him the beauteous village maid, Marguerite, with whom the student falls instantaneously in love. (...) The maiden at first rejects the stranger's advances, but Faust, aided by the demoniacal influence of Mephistopheles (who is anxious to destroy another human soul), urges his suit with such ardor that Marguerite's resistance is at length overcome. Valentine, Marguerite's brother, on returning with his comrades from the wars, learns what has occurred; he challenges his sister's seducer, but, through the intervention of Mephistopheles, he is slain in the encounter. Marguerite, horror-stricken at the calamity of which she is the original cause, gives way to despair. Her reason becomes affected, and, in a paroxysm of frenzy, she kills her infant. For this crime she is thrown into prison. Faust, aided by Mephistopheles, obtains access to the cell in which she is immured. They both eagerly urge her to fly, but Marguerite, in whom holier feelings have gained the ascendant, spurns their proffered aid, and places her sole reliance in prayer and repentance. Overcome at last by sorrow and remorse, with an earnest prayer for forgiveness on her lips, the unhappy girl expires. Mephistopheles triumphs at the catastrophe he has brought about, but a chorus of heavenly voices is heard proclaiming that there is pardon for the repentant sinner, and the Evil One, foiled and overcome, crouches suppliantly as the accents of divine love and forgiveness make themselves heard, while the spirit of Marguerite, borne by ministering angels, is wafted upwards to its eternal home." #ClassicalMusic #BooksBooksBooks #Antiquarian #Libretto #Bookworm #MetropolitanOperaHouse #Faust #booksforsale #Bookstagram #Goethe #bookcollecting #CharlesBarbier #CoverArt #Opera #readersofinstagram #Mephistopheles #instabooks #CharlesGounod #CuttleboneBooks #booksale #bibliophile #MichelCarre #collectiblebooks #GrandOpera #Vintage #JohannWolfgangVonGoethe #instaread #Books

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