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1	The Poetic Edda more books like this by Carolyne Larrington (Translator) add to wishlist Young were the years when Ymir made his settlement, there was no sand nor sea nor cool waves; earth was nowhere nor the sky above, chaos yawned, grass was there nowhere. The sun turns black, earth sinks into the sea, the bright stars vanish from the sky; steam rises up in the conflagration, a high flame plays against heaven itself. Seeress's ... see all copies from £6.19! new only from £6.19!
2	Miss Julie more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist In this fin de siecle parable of class tension and gender war, a wealthy woman engages a man on her staff in a summer's night of passion, including fights, sex, dreams for a shared future in which their social differences won't matter, and disillusionment when they realize how stuck in their lives they really are. This play was written in 1888. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
3	An Enemy of the People more books like this by Henrik Ibsen add to wishlist This is a fresh and contemporary translation of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" by Nicholas Rudall. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.96! \| first editions
4	Either/Or more books like this by Soren Kierkegaard add to wishlist This volume contains the writings of a young man (I) and of Judge William (II). The ironical young man's papers include a collection of sardonic aphorisms; essays on Mozart, modern dram, and boredom; and 'the Seducer's Diary.' see all copies from £4.95! new only from £14.39! \| first editions
5	Strindberg, Five Plays more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist A collection of Strindberg's most frequently performed plays: "The Father"; "Miss Julie"; "A Dream Play; "The Dance of Death"; and "The Ghost Sonata". These translations aim to capture the spirit of the original Swedish texts while embracing colloquial, spoken English. see all copies from £5.17! new only from £8.87! \| first editions
6	Miss Julie & other plays more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death 'Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, 'while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century. The five plays ... see all copies from £4.02! new only from £4.92!
7	Selected poems more books like this by W. H. Auden add to wishlist Auden's poems are treasured for their wit and intelligence, their meticulous craftsmanship, and their deep feeling for social and moral issues as well as personal ones. In the words of Stephen Spender at Auden's memorial service in Oxford, "[T]hroughout the whole development of his poetry...his theme had been love: not Romantic love but love as ... see all copies from £1.45! new only from £8.86! \| first editions
8	Four Major Plays: Volume 2 Ghosts an Enemy People the Lady from Sea John Gabriel Borkman more books like this by Henrik Johan Ibsen, Rolf Fjelde (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.99! \| first editions
9	The Man Whom Women Loved: The Life of Bror Blixen more books like this by Ulf Aschan add to wishlist A fascinating biography of the man who was husband to Isak Dinesen, archetypal hero for Ernest Hemingway, and a romantic figure of mythic passions for women and safari adventure. 80 black-and-white photographs. see all copies from £10.53! new only from £29.07! \| first editions
10	Doll's House and Other Plays more books like this by H Ibsen add to wishlist "The League of Youth" (1869) was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social drama and marks a turning-point in his style. By 1879, Ibsen was convinced that women suffer an inevitable violation of their personalities within the context of marriage. In "A Doll's House", he portrayed the wife struggling to break free: this was unheard of at the time ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.80!
11	Letters from Africa 1914-1931 more books like this by Isak Dinesen, Frans Lasson add to wishlist A collection of the letters sent by Baroness Blixen to friends and relatives in Europe during the seventeen years she lived on a coffee plantation in Kenya, translated from the original Danish. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £13.00! \| first editions
12	Strindberg: A Biography more books like this by Michael Meyer add to wishlist This biography of Strindberg reveals previously unknown details about his three tempestuous marriages, his dabblings in the occult, his recurrent bouts of madness, and his friendships with Gauguin, Munch, and Delius, that were the touchstones of his tormented life. see all copies from £5.70! new only from £65.61! \| first editions
13 view cover	Text and Supertext in Ibsen's Drama more books like this by Brian Johnston add to wishlist see all copies from £6.16! new only from £7.20! \| first editions
14 view cover	Ghosts more books like this by Henrik Ibsen add to wishlist Ghosts is Ibsen's formidably realistic play about the effects of previous generations on the young, a stinging satire on contemporary Norwegian society and morality, and a haunting tragedy that, more than a century since it premiered, still retains its power to shock. In Ibsen's study of the lingering poison in a marriage based on a lie, Osvald ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
15 view cover	An introduction to Old Norse. more books like this by E. V. Gordon add to wishlist see all copies from £19.16! new only from £44.39! \| first editions
16 view cover	The master-builder, and other plays more books like this by Henrik Ibsen add to wishlist The four plays in this volume, written late in Ibsen's career as a dramatist, move away from his earlier preoccupation with people at odds with society to instead explore the inward struggle with their own thoughts, feelings and dreams. "The Master Builder" (1892) depicts a powerful man whose illusions collapse in the face of a young woman's ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.49! \| first editions
17 view cover	Four Major Plays, Volume II more books like this by Henrik Johan Ibsen, Rolf Fjelde (Translator), Terry Otten (Afterword by) add to wishlist Four of Ibsen's plays centering upon personal awakening and inner transformation through confrontations with family guilt, social hypocrisy, conventional and sexual morality, and the materialistic bourgeois ethic are collected in this second volume of his major plays. Includes "Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Lady from the Sea", and "John ... see all copies from £2.58! new only from £6.16! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Quintessence of Ibsenism more books like this by G Bernard Shaw add to wishlist Great critic and dramatist's commentary on Ibsen's aims and methods, including evaluations of plays: "Brand," "Peer Gynt," "Ghosts," "Hedda Gabler," others. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £11.26! \| first editions
19	Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa: The Untold Story more books like this by Linda Donelson add to wishlist A biography of Danish writer Karen Blixen, who wrote her famous memoir of life in Africa during the early part of the 20th-century under the name Isak Dinesen. This story covers similar ground as "Out of Africa", yet provides the true details surrounding Blixen's life and African experience. Blixen and cousin/husband Baron Bror Blixen left ... see all copies from £7.02! new only from £52.39!
20 view cover	The complete major prose plays more books like this by Henrik Johan Ibsen add to wishlist This collection ranges from the impassioned exposure of hypocrisy and deception in "Pillars of Society" to the near-dreamline symbolism of "When We Dead Awaken." The treatments of the role of women in "A Doll House"; of family guilt in "Ghosts; " of sexuality in "Rosmersholm; " of the individual vs. society in "An Ememy of the People; " of the ... see all copies from £9.28! new only from £93.69! \| first editions
21 view cover	Ghosts, an Enemy of the People, the Wild Duck Notes more books like this by Henrik Johan Ibsen, Marianne Sturman add to wishlist Because Ibsenite drama has become part of the history of the theater, a study of his work gives us a special insight into contemporary writings. The Modern 'theater of the absurd, ' for instance, expressing a personal alienation from society, is merely another form of the social criticism which Ibsen first inspired. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.57!
22 view cover	Alphabet more books like this by Inger Christensen, Susanna Nied (Translator) add to wishlist This translation, recipient of the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize, brings the work of this celebrated Danish poet to English language readers for the first time. The poems here are based on Fibonacci's sequence, a mathematical pattern in which each number is the sum of the two that come before it. Everyday situations and imagery ... see all copies from £3.71! new only from £3.71!
23 view cover	Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller more books like this by Jackie Wullschlager add to wishlist A biography of the Danish author best known for creating such classic stories as "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor's New Clothes." Using Andersen's own diaries and letters, the author reveals Andersen's frustration over the fact that his stories were written for adults but were known as children's fairy tales. The author ultimately presents ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
24	Forays Into Swedish Poetry more books like this by Lars Gustafsson add to wishlist see all copies from £6.11! first editions
25 view cover	The Works of Henrik Ibsen more books like this by Henrik Ibsen add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FEAST AT SOLHOUG INTRODUCTION Exactly a year after the production of Lady Inger of Ostrat?that is to say on the "Foundation Day" of the Bergen Theatre, January 2, ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £8.35! \| signed copies \| first editions

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