Peer Gynt.
by IBSEN, Henrik
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine, in a very nice jacket with some light chipping to edges, particularly at the bottom of the rear panel and the extremi
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia:: J. B. Lippincott,, n.d. (but 1936).. First American trade edition with these illustrations.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Near fine, in a very nice jacket with some light chipping to edges, particularly at the bottom of the rear panel and the extremities of the spine. Much nicer than usually seen. . 4to,. The text and dust jacket are illustrated in color by Arthur Rackham.
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
- Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10793
- Title
- Peer Gynt.
- Author
- IBSEN, Henrik
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's cloth in dust jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, in a very nice jacket with some light chipping to edges, particularly at the bottom of the rear panel and the extremi
- Edition
- First American trade edition with these illustrations.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott,
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia:
- Date Published
- n.d. (but 1936).
- Pages
- 256 pp.
- Size
- 4to,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books;
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