Excerpt from Goethe's Faust: A Fragment of Socialist Criticism As Dante, following Christ, descends into hell on the night of Good Friday to rise into the earthly paradise on Easter morn ing; sfifaust on the Saturday night before into the mental hell of de spair and is aroused to new hope on Easter morning by a chorus of angel} After one has read the Divine Comedy and Faust every recurring Easter calls up to his mind the powerful emotions produced by the opening pages of these great works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.