Hedda Gabler and other plays / Henrik Ibsen ; translated by Una Ellis-Fermor.
By: Ibsen, Henrik.
Contributor(s): Ellis-Fermor, Una Mary
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Material type: 
BookSeries: Penguin classics.Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1971Description: 368 p ; 18 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 014044016X ; 014044016X.Subject(s): Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Translations into English | Women -- Social conditions -- DramaDDC classification: 839.826 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 839.826 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00033536 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner's struggle to hide the sins of his past at the expense of another man's reputation, while in The Wild Duck (1884) an idealist, believing he must tell the truth at any cost, destroys a family by exposing the lie behind his friend's marriage. And Hedda Gabler (1890) portrays an unhappily married woman who is unable to break free from the conventional life she has created for herself, with tragic results for the entire family.
Hedda Gabler -- The Pillars of the Community --The Wild Duck.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 7)
- The Pillars of the Community (p. 23)
- The Wild Duck (p. 139)
- Hedda Gabler (p. 261)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
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 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)