All 5 Uses of
Faust
in
The Age of Innocence
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Book I I. On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.†
Chpt 1 *
- , with a final burst of love triumphant, as she pressed the dishevelled daisy to her lips and lifted her large eyes to the sophisticated countenance of the little brown Faust-Capoul, who was vainly trying, in a tight purple velvet doublet and plumed cap, to look as pure and true as his artless victim.†
Chpt 1
- "We'll read Faust together …. by the Italian lakes …." he thought, somewhat hazily confusing the scene of his projected honey-moon with the masterpieces of literature which it would be his manly privilege to reveal to his bride.†
Chpt 1
- On this particular evening they had invited Sillerton Jackson, Mrs. Archer and Newland and his wife to go with them to the Opera, where Faust was being sung for the first time that winter.†
Chpt 32
- May gave him a glance of comprehension, and he saw her whisper to his mother, who nodded sympathetically; then she murmured an excuse to Mrs. van der Luyden, and rose from her seat just as Marguerite fell into Faust's arms.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(Faust) literary character who sells his soul to the devil in order to become all-knowing, or godlikeeditor's notes: Faust's most famous appearances are as the protagonist of Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" (1604) and Goethe's "Faust" (1832).
A German necromancer, Georg Faust (~1480-~1538) is thought to have been an actual person who inspired the Faustian legend.