How Long to Read The Urfaust

How Long Does it Take to Read The Urfaust?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 45 minutes to read The Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. Faust and the adjective Faustian imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term. The Faust of early books - as well as the ballads, dramas, movies, and puppet-plays which grew out of them - is irrevocably damned because he prefers human to divine knowledge; "he laid the Holy Scriptures behind the door and under the bench, refused to be called doctor of Theology, but preferred to be styled doctor of Medicine". Plays and comic puppet theatre loosely based on this legend were popular throughout Germany in the 16th century, often reducing Faust and Mephistopheles to figures of vulgar fun. The story was popularised in England by Christopher Marlowe, who gave it a classic treatment in his play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. In Goethe's reworking of the story two hundred years later, Faust becomes a dissatisfied intellectual who yearns for "more than earthly meat and drink" in his life. - Amazon (summary for a later edition of this title).

How long is The Urfaust?

The Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is 104 pages long, and a total of 26,416 words.

This makes it 35% the length of the average book. It also has 32% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Urfaust Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 24 minutes to read The Urfaust aloud.

What Reading Level is The Urfaust?

The Urfaust is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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