Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem (Everyman's Library)
by Ibsen, Henrik (Sharp, R. Farquharson – Translator)
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- Hardcover
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- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, London . New York, 1927. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. introduction by translator, note on the present translation. Illustrated endpapers showing a art nouveau design. Green coloured cloth covered boards with a self embossed publisher's logo to the front panel and gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. A dramatic poem, which can be produced as a play. Everyman's Library number 716. Softening of the back strip edges with a little bumping of the book corners and rubbing of the lower book edges. Some foxing to the lower edge of the front panel and quite noticeable moisture damage to the lower edge of the rear panel – please see photograph. Uniform tanning of the text block edges and pages with very noticeable offset tanning and foxing to the rear and pages. A previous owner has noted that death of the playwright on the half title page and has made the occasional pencil mark in the text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], VII - X, [2], 3 - 223, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Theatre & Plays; Classics; Play / Playscript; Britain/UK; Essays & Literary Criticism. Inventory No: 0124668. .
Synopsis
Henrik Ibsen was born of well-to-do parents at Skien, a small Norwegian coastal town, on March 20, 1828. In 1836 his father went bankrupt, and the family was reduced to near poverty. At the age of fifteen, he was apprenticed to an apothecary in Grimstad. In 1850 Ibsen ventured to Christiania — present-day Oslo — as a student, with the hope of becoming a doctor. On the strength of his first two plays he was appointed “theater-poet” to the new Bergen National Theater, where he wrote five conventional romantic and historical dramas and absorbed the elements of his craft. In 1857 he was called to the directorship of the financially unsound Christiania Norwegian Theater, which failed in 1862. In 1864, exhausted and enraged by the frustration of his efforts toward a national drama and theater, he quit Norway for what became twenty-seven years of voluntary exile abroad. In Italy he wrote the volcanic Brand (1866), which made his reputation and secured him a poet’s stipend from the government. Its companion piece, the phantasmagoric Peer Gynt , followed in 1867, then the immense double play, Emperor and Galilean (1873), expressing his philosophy of civilization. Meanwhile, having moved to Germany, Ibsen had been searching for a new style. With The Pillars of Society he found it; this became the first of twelve plays, appearing at two-year intervals, that confirmed his international standing as the foremost dramatist of his age. In 1900 Ibsen suffered the first of several strokes that incapacitated him. He died in Oslo on May 23, 1906.
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0124668
- Title
- Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem (Everyman's Library)
- Author
- Ibsen, Henrik (Sharp, R. Farquharson – Translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London . New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- BZDB2 plays, Henrik Ibsen, Brand, Everyman's Library -- Series -- Number 716 Theatre & Plays; Classics; Play / Playscript; Britain/UK; Essays & Literary Criticism. Unbranded Ibsen, Henrik (Sharp, R. Farquharson – Translator) Pee
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