Henrik Ibsen
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Halvard Solness, a middle-aged architect whose ruthlessness in his business makes him a hardened individual, is reaching for love while clinging to a career that is on the verge of collapse. Affected by his ambitions are his wife and his colleagues, until a young woman shows up asking for a promised kingdom.
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"This is the first English edition of Henrik Ibsen's letters since 1905. It contains- in chronological order- 275 letters, thirteen speeches, four prefaces, and one autobiographical fragment. Brought to light are 129 letters not published in the early edition, of which fifty have not been translated previously. These letters, speeches, and literary works form an intimate biography of the great Norwegian writer. Here are Ibsen's protests against the...
14) Seven plays
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Hedda Gabler: A social drama of a caged woman in the late nineteenth century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom. Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic general, has just returned to her villa in Kristiania (now Oslo) from her honeymoon. Her husband is Jørgen Tesman, an aspiring, young, reliable (but not brilliant) academic who has combined research with their honeymoon. It becomes clear...
17) A doll's house
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Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald and mother of three children, appears to enjoy living the life of a pampered, indulged child. But as her economic dependence becomes brutally clear, Nora's acceptance of the status quo undergoes a profound change. To the horror of the bewildered Torvald, himself caught in the tight web of a conservative society which demands that he exert strict control, Nora comes to see that only possible true course of action is to...