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Mephisto (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Klaus Mann [Mann, Klaus] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mephisto (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) about?
“It chimes eerily with the times we are living through now.” ―Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review Hendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to power in Germany, he willingly renounces his Communist past and deserts his wife and mistress in order to keep on performing. His diabolical performance as Mephistopheles in Faust proves to be the stepping-stone he yearned for: attracting the attention of Hermann Göring, it wins Hofgen an appointment as
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Klaus Mann [Mann, Klaus]
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Published
- 1936
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140189186
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (2,313 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Mephisto (1977)
- Mephisto: Roman einer Karriere (1980)
- Mephisto: Roman einer Karriere (1988)
- Mephisto: Roman einer Karriere (1995)
- Mephisto : Roman einer Karriere (2017)
- Mephisto (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (1995)
- Mephisto · Roman einer Karriere (2010)
- Mefistofelʹ : Istorii{u0361}a Odnoĭ Karʹery (1995)
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