Faust

Faust is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, yearning for "more than earthly meat and drink" in his life. He makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures and the Devil happily shows him the life as everyone else wants it, leaving the Doctor in some ever so worldly dilemmas... If you only read one german book in your life - it has to be this one! It is a must-read that is so essentially relevant and true that it never gets old.