Speeches & New Letters
by Henrik Ibsen
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A collection of public speeches & letters of Ibsen, plus an extremely comprehensive chronological, annotated bibliography. Valuable for the light it sheds on Ibsen's relations with other literary figures for the insight it provides into his character.Members
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Henrik Ibsen, poet and playwright was born in Skein, Norway, in 1828. His creative work spanned 50 years, from 1849-1899, and included 25 plays and numerous poems. During his middle, romantic period (1840-1875), Ibsen wrote two important dramatic poems, Brand and Peer Gynt, while the period from 1875-1899 saw the creation of 11 realistic plays show more with contemporary settings, the most famous of which are A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Wild Duck. Henrik Ibsen died in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway in 1906. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 839.8 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Danish and Norwegian literatures
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- PT8885 .A3 .K5 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Norwegian literature Individual authors or works 19th century Ibsen, Henrik
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