Henrik Ibsen
Author
Series
Dover giant thrift editions
Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 802, 803
Modern Library giants volume G36
Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 802, 803
Modern Library giants volume G36
Language
English
Description
Dostoyevsky was the son of an impoverished nobleman of Lithuanian origin. born in 1821 in Moscow, where his father held the post of resident doctor at a charity hospital. The family had small living quarters on the hospital grounds, and Fyodor became acquainted at an early age with misery, misfortune and death. Doctor Dostoyevsky, authoritarian and morose, believed in old fashioned discipline and strict religious upbringing, and Fyodor's childhood...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Nora is sheltered first by her father and then by her husband. All her life, she has been protected like a fragile possession ... like a doll in a doll's house. After she marries, Nora becomes frustrated, realizes that under the dominance of her husband she will never have an identity of her own, and leaves to find a new life for herself.
Author
Series
The Penguin classics volume L 16
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Description
A collection of four plays by the famed playwright, including Hedda Gabler, which features one of the most infamous women characters in theater.
One of the most renowned playwrights of all time, Norwegian-born Henrik Ibsen was an influential figure in the development of realist theater. Hedda Gabler, arguably Ibsen's greatest work, is a tumultuous and sweeping play about a woman contending with her own dissatisfaction at the turn of the nineteenth...
