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Four Major Plays: Volume 1: A Doll House; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder (edition 1992)

by Henrik Ibsen

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Enduring Liturature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship Four of the most popular and profound works from the playwright known as the "father of modern theater." This Enriched Classic Edition includes: * A concise introduction that gives readers important background information * A chronology of the author's life and work * A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context * An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations * Detailed explanatory notes * Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work * Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction * A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson… (more)
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Title:Four Major Plays: Volume 1: A Doll House; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder
Authors:Henrik Ibsen
Info:Signet Classics (1992), Edition: Reissue, Paperback
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A Doll's House / Hedda Gabler / The Master-Builder / The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (Author)

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Ibsen is another writer I randomly picked up in college and have liked ever since. Amazon people recommend the McFarlane/Arup translation as the best, which has Ghosts rather than The Wild Duck. I'm not sure I read Master Builder, and I'll have to read Ghosts, but the other three made a lasting impression. Ibsen's not light, but he's easy to read and straightforward. Proto-feminism written by a guy? - I guess it's something like that and more. ( )
  garbagedump | Dec 9, 2022 |
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  laplantelibrary | Apr 26, 2022 |
A doll House, Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, Master Builder.

All of these people are very sad. Confused, mixed up lives. ( )
  LindaLeeJacobs | Feb 15, 2020 |
Infrequently one comes across a book, a writer, who is obviously many levels above the typical tripe and hacks passed off as literature or drama. Ibsen is certainly one of the those on a much higher plane. He is noticeably intrigued by women (A Doll House and Hedda Gabler) and explores their unique and sometimes irrational conduct (I know, only from a man's point of view) in depth. If you are interested in plays, start with Ibsen. Once I started a play I just could not put it down until finished. Highly recommended. ( )
  BayanX | Jul 12, 2015 |
A Doll House: 3-act play detailing the blackmailing for forgery of a housewife and mother of three by a failed lawyer. Dramatic focus is on the crisis’ awakening of Nora to her doll-like existence as an uneducated and patronized wife and her new determination to discover herself and the world by separating from her husband and children. Some sexual innuendo.
  chosler | Jan 20, 2009 |
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To Borghild Dahl, writer and seer with the inner eye
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Foreword: It is one of those happy accidents of literary history that Henrik Ibsen's career as a dramatist neatly coincides with the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. that's why I can't stay here with you any longer. (A Doll's House)
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This work represents those anthologies containing A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. It should not be combined with any anthology containing a differing selection of plays.
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Enduring Liturature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship Four of the most popular and profound works from the playwright known as the "father of modern theater." This Enriched Classic Edition includes: * A concise introduction that gives readers important background information * A chronology of the author's life and work * A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context * An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations * Detailed explanatory notes * Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work * Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction * A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson

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