PEER GYNT
by IBSEN, HENRIK
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No d/w
- Seller
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Skreen, Sligo, Ireland
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About This Item
London: George G. Harrap, 1936. Book. Illus. by RACKHAM, ARTHUR. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition.. 256pp; A Dramatic Poem; With 12 full colour illustrations by Arthur Racham; Covers are worn and soiled with small tears to head and tail of spine; However internally very bright and clean with tissue-guarded illustrations clean and complete; Digital photos available on request; Size: 4to.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Weathered Stone Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008350
- Title
- PEER GYNT
- Author
- IBSEN, HENRIK
- Illustrator
- RACKHAM, ARTHUR
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No d/w
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- George G. Harrap
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- PEER GYNT; ARTHUR RACKHAM;
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Skreen, Sligo
About Weathered Stone Books
In operation since 1982 as The Winding Stair Bookshop, Dublin until 2005. Then in USA as Wandering Star Books an online bookseller also conducting appraisals for private collectors and institutions. Now back in Ireland and living in beautiful Sligo with views of the Atlantic and selling online.
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- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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- Fair
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