Ghosts, A Public Enemy, When We Dead Wake
$22.64
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1964
Summary
The plays in this volume focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them.
In Ghosts, Osvald Alving returns home only to discover the truth about the father he always looked up to, and learns the horrific effect his father’s debauchery has had on him. It was Ibsen’s most provocative drama, stripping away the surface of a middle-class family to expose layers of hypocrisy and immorality.
An Enemy of the People sets t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140441352 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140441352 |
| Author: | Henrik Ibsen, Peter Watts |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1964 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen was born in Norway in 1828. One of the first writers to dramatise the individual’s alienation from society. He is recognised as one of Europe’s greatest dramatists and is called ‘The Father of Modern Drama’.
Peter Watts is a journalist and translator.
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