Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20161001000406/@comment-26397825-20161001020126

I looked further into Faust, and apparently it wasoriginally published in 1587 as a chapbook, actually, which Wikipedia defines as:

''A chapbook is an early type of popular literature printed in early modern Europe. Produced cheaply, chapbooks were commonly small, paper-covered booklets, usually printed on a single sheet folded into books of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages. They were often illustrated with crude woodcuts, which sometimes bore no relation to the text. When illustrations were included in chapbooks, they were considered popular prints.'' Basically it was an early comic book, not even a novel, which was then converted into an actual novel.