Award-winning biographer, critic and writer A.N. Wilson tells the spellbinding story of the life of Goethe with characteristic wit and verve. From his youth as a wild literary prodigy, to his later years as Germany’s most heroic romantic figure, Wilson hones in on Goethe’s undying obsession with the work he would spend his entire life writing – Faust. Goethe spent over 60 years writing his retelling for Faust, a strange and powerful story that absorbed all the philosophical questions of his time as well as the revolutions and empires that came and went. It is his greatest work, but as Wilson explores, it is also something much more – it is the foundational myth of how we came to be