Book in: English
By: Henrik Ibsen
Oxford World's Classics 2008
Pages: 384
Translated by: James McFarlane and Jens Arup
Synopsis:
Four of Ibsen's central plays in one volume, taken from the scholarly Oxford Ibsen. A Doll's House (1879), in which a comfortable marriage comes apart over an old debt and the lie told to cover it; Ghosts (1881), the play about inherited illness and inherited hypocrisy that had Ibsen denounced across Europe; Hedda Gabler (1890), with its clever, bored and dangerous heroine; and The Master Builder (1892), in which an ageing architect is visited by a young woman who remembers a promise he has spent years forgetting. James McFarlane's introduction sets each play in its context, and the edition carries explanatory notes and a bibliography.
