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The Damned (Là-Bas)
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Terry Hale
A masterpiece of French decadent
literature, J.K. Huysmans’s gaudy,
shocking, and largely autobiographical
novel was condemned upon publication
and just as quickly achieved cult status,
with its portrayal of erotic devilry in fin-desiècle
Paris.
320 pp. 978-0-14-044767-5 $13.00
henrik ibsen
1828 – 1906, norwegian
Brand
A Version for the Stage by Geoffrey Hill
The story of a minister driven by faith to
risk the death of his wife and child, Brand
pits a man of vision against the forces of
ignorance and venality.
176 pp. 978-0-14-044676-0 $12.00
A Doll’s House and Other Plays
Translated with an Introduction by
Peter Watts
From The League of Youth, his first
venture into realistic social drama, to A
Doll’s House, a provocative portrait of
a woman’s struggle for freedom, to the
family tensions depicted in The Lady
from the Sea, Ibsen is concerned with the
individual’s conflicts with society.
336 pp. 978-0-14-044146-8 $11.00
Ghosts and Other Plays
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Peter Watts
Incisive, critical, and controversial, Ghosts
and A Public Enemy depict the negative
effects of social rigidity on individual lives;
When We Dead Awaken, Ibsen’s last play,
is a story of internal turmoil that can be
read as the dramatist’s comments on his
lifework.
304 pp. 978-0-14-044135-2 $11.00
henrik ibsen
Henrik Ibsen was born at Skien, Norway, in 1828. His family went bankrupt
when he was a child, and he struggled with poverty for many years. His first
ambition was medicine, but he abandoned this to write and to work in theater.
A scholarship enabled him to travel to Rome in 1864. In Italy he wrote Brand
(1866), which earned him a state pension, and Peer Gynt (1867), for which
Grieg later wrote the incidental music. These plays established his reputation.
From The League of Youth (1869) onward, Ibsen renounced poetry and wrote
prose drama. He supported in his plays many crucial issues of his day, such as
the emancipation of women. Plays like Ghosts (1881) and A Doll’s House (1879)
caused a critical uproar.
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