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What it's about
A brilliant scholar, bored with every lawful branch of learning, sells his soul to Lucifer for twenty-four years of power and pleasure served by Mephistophilis, and squanders them on tricks before his terrifying last hour. Marlowe's tragedy in Dyce's edition of the 1604 quarto.
Reading plan
Pick a finish date and Genius lays out the days — the plan shows today's target and keeps you honest.
Read together
Start a circle and share the code — everyone sees everyone's honest place in the book. Accountability, not leaderboards.
Who it's for
- Readers who want the play behind every later Faust story - Anyone who enjoys Shakespeare and wants his greatest contemporary - Readers drawn to stories about ambition and its price
