Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ibsen’s life and works
* Detailed introductions to the plays and other texts
* 24 plays with individual contents tables, many appearing for the first time in digital print
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Famous works such as PEER GYNT are fully illustrated
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Also includes Ibsen’s complete works in the original Norwegian language – ideal for students (Ibsens samlede verker i norsk språk)
* Features Ibsen’s rare speeches and letters in English translation
* Unique criticism section, with essays by writers such as Henry James and James Joyce evaluating Ibsen’s contribution to literature
* Features Edmund Gosse’s celebrated biography on his friend Ibsen – discover the playwright’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
Please note: there are no known translations of the two early plays NORMA and ST. JOHN’S EVE in the public domain.
CONTENTS:
The Plays
CATILINE
THE BURIAL MOUND
LADY INGER OF OESTRAAT
THE FEAST AT SOLHAUG
OLAF LILJEKRANS
THE VIKINGS AT HELGELAND
LOVE’S COMEDY
THE PRETENDERS
BRAND
PEER GYNT
THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH
EMPEROR AND GALILEAN
PILLARS OF SOCIETY
A DOLL’S HOUSE
GHOSTS
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
THE WILD DUCK
ROSMERSHOLM
THE LADY FROM THE SEA
HEDDA GABLER
THE MASTER BUILDER
LITTLE EYOLF
JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN
WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN
The Poems
INTRODUCTION TO IBSEN’S POETRY by Fydell Edmund Garrett
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Norwegian Texts (De norske tekster)
LIST OF WORKS (LISTE OVER IBSENS VERKER)
The Non-Fiction
SPEECHES AND NEW LETTERS
The Criticism
HENRIK IBSEN by Arthur Symons
A DOLL’S HOUSE by Montrose J. Moses
GHOSTS by Montrose J. Moses
HEDDA GABLER by Frank W. Chandler
THE MASTER BUILDER by Frank W. Chandler
HENRIK IBSEN by Henry James
IBSEN’S NEW DRAMA by James Joyce
The Biography
THE LIFE OF HENRIK IBSEN by Edmund Gosse
