Faust. In 2 volumes

The publication contains a unique selection of illustrations. The legend of Faust and "Faust" Goethe as the most famous artwork created on the basis of the People"s Medieval Book "History of Dr. Johann Faust", occupies a special place in the history of mankind. The faast plot was not during antiquity. In the world of ancient man there were mysteries that resemble Valpurgiyev night, and the dark forces of the underworld, where Hercules and Orpheus were descended, and Odyssey. But no one concluded the evil of the contract. Yes, and the forces of these - the forces of the underground, the afterlife - were not perceived by an ancient man as the power of evil and could not give him power in exchange for his soul. The contract with the devil signed in the Middle Ages. Demand creates supply. A person wanted to have, to own, know - and he got the opportunity to sign his own blood in the cabinets of alchemists, chemists, physicists and biologists, the term of which has not yet expired. It agrees and the splitting of the atom, and overcoming the earthly gravity with the second space speed, and the technology of manipulating the consciousness of millions of themselves like. Dr. Faust signed this agreement, "driven by the insane thirst for the knowledge of truth, such an already traditional phrase determines the motives of his actions, as if the madman need to know the truth. Nevertheless, the insanely driven, however, to more thirst for possession, thirst for pleasures, thirst for comfort and comfort, Faust signed this contract with the devil and signed it on behalf of all mankind. And, having received everything that it has today is from electronic microscopes to superal telescopes, from mobile phones and an electric-mill furnace to prepare breakfast to cloned lambs, humanity is approaching the time when it comes to pay, according to a signed agreement