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        Doctor Faustus


        setting

        Kaisersaschern, Germany

        time

        1943-1946

        language

        German

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1947

        page count

        535

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Adrian Leverkühn, Serenus Zeitblom

        Rip's impressions

        first line

        It was a quiet spot near the cathedral and away from Kaisersaschern's business district along Markt Strasse and Grieskamer Ziele, a crooked narrow way with no sidewalk, and among its houses Nikolaus Leverkuhn's was the most imposing.