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  • A Doll's House and Other Plays

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Translated by Deborah Dawkin, Erik Skuggevik ...
    A Doll's House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's doll-child'These four plays established Ibsen as the leading figure in the theatre of his day, sending shockwaves throughout Europe and beyond. A Doll's House scandalized audiences with its free-thinking heroine ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Hunger

    by Knut Hamsun, Tore Rem, Terence Cave ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the rent, eating almost nothing, and engaging spasmodically and manically with ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Pan

    by Knut Hamsun, Terence Cave ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling.' Lieutenant Thomas Glahn spends a summer in northern Norway, where the midnight sun triggers a short but intense release of energies. Living out of a rudimentary hut on the edge of the forest, he pursues a solitary existence, hunting, fishing, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Ibsen in Context

    Edited by Narve Fulsås, Tore Rem ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Henrik Ibsen, the 'Father of Modern Drama', came from a seemingly inauspicious background. What are the key contexts for understanding his appearance on the world stage? This collection provides thirty contributions from leading scholars in theatre studies, literary studies, book history, philosophy, music, and history, offering a rich interdisciplinary understanding of Ibsen's work, with chapters ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama

    by Tore Rem, Narve Fulsås ...
    Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. When he made his debut in Norway in 1850, the nation's literary presence was negligible, yet by 1890 Ibsen had become one of Europe's most famous authors. Contrary to the standard narrative of his move from restrictive provincial origins to ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Master Builder and Other Plays

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Translated by Barbara Haveland, Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife ...
    Ibsen's greatest late plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.This volume includes The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken - Ibsen's last four plays, written in his old age in Oslo. In The Master Builder, a married, middle-aged architect becomes bewitched by a strange young woman who claims to have known him for years. A ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Translated by Deborah Dawkin, Erik Skuggevik ...
    Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.In these four unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the complex nature of truth, the tension between freedom and responsibility, and the terrible pull that the past exerts over the present. In The Wild Duck, an idealist destroys a family by exposing the lie behind his friend's ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Sleepwalkers

    by Hermann Broch ...
    Series series Vintage International
    With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in the intimate daily life of Germany, Broch was identifying the oceanic changes that would shortly sweep that life into the abyss.Whether he is ... Read more

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  • Hunger

    by Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad ...
    Translated by Sverre Lyngstad ...
    A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner’s first and most important novelFirst published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on “an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Storyteller

    Tales out of Loneliness

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short storiesThe Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • One-Way Street

    by Walter Benjamin, Greil Marcus ...
    Translated by Edmund Jephcott ...
    One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature—by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Victoria

    by Knut Hamsun ...
    Translated by Sverre Lyngstad ...
    The Nobel Prize winner’s poetic, psychologically intense portrayal of love’s predicament in a class-bound societyA Penguin ClassicSet in a coastal village of late nineteenth-century Norway, Victoria follows two lovers whose yearnings are as powerful as the circumstances that conspire to thwart their romance. Johannes, a miller’s son turned poet, finds inspiration for his writing in his passionate ... Read more

    $7.99 USD