PEER GYNT: A DRAMATIC POEM IN FIVE ACTS
by Ibsen, Henrik (Horace Maynard Finney, M.D., translator)
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About This Item
NY, NY: Philosophical Library, 1955. x, 197 pp., red cloth w/ black lettering & decoration; Book shows dent to spine w/ a couple of small dents to edges of boards; corners of boards lightly bumped; Jacket shows some short tears, creasing & small pieces missing to edges; rubbing & a little fading to spine panel w/ some small rubbed areas to front panel as well / Author's business card has been glued to front pastedown. Red stamp of "1906 - 1956, 50th ANNIVERSARY, DEATH OF IBSEN" to front free endpaper. "Now, in a modern translation, in Ibsen's smug easy-going conversational style, you meet Ingrid, Solveig, Ase and Peer Gynt face to face for the first time. This epic fantasy of Ibsen, with its rich and rugged Norwegian background, surpasses even Macbeth and Faust in color and action, and like Richard III, Peer Gynt is the hero in every scene." /. Hard Cover. Good +/Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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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- High Castle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HCA-4385
- Title
- PEER GYNT: A DRAMATIC POEM IN FIVE ACTS
- Author
- Ibsen, Henrik (Horace Maynard Finney, M.D., translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Publisher
- Philosophical Library
- Place of Publication
- NY, NY
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- HCA, POETRY, POEMS, VERSE, RHYME, CLASSIC, LITERATURE, DRAMA, PLAY
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- ALL BOOKS-0009;
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