
audiobook
by Anonymous
DE HISTORIE
A learned son of a modest farming family, Jan Faust grows up under the watchful eyes of devout relatives and bright friends who steer him toward theological study. Yet his restless curiosity pulls him away from scripture, and he soon trades holy texts for the forbidden tomes of alchemy, astrology, and the occult. As he delves deeper, his reputation shifts from promising theologian to a daring practitioner of the dark arts, earning both admiration and warning from those who once mentored him.
The narrative follows Faust’s early exploits—his daring experiments, secret meetings with mysterious scholars, and the unsettling allure of forbidden knowledge. Listeners will be drawn into a world where scholarly ambition collides with moral peril, and where the line between miracle and menace blurs. The story promises a vivid portrait of a man whose brilliance leads him down a shadowed path, hinting at the dramatic consequences that await.
Language
nl
Duration
~3 hours (206K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by André Engels, Scans: Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam/Early Dutch Books Online and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Early Dutch Books Online)
Release date
2016-11-25
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
Some of the world’s most enduring books come from writers whose names were never recorded or never revealed. “Anonymous” on a title page can mean many different things: a lost identity, a deliberate choice, or a work shaped by tradition over time.
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