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1	The Poetic Edda more books like this by Carolyne Larrington (Translator) add to wishlist Young were the years when Ymir made his settlement, there was no sand nor sea nor cool waves; earth was nowhere nor the sky above, chaos yawned, grass was there nowhere. The sun turns black, earth sinks into the sea, the bright stars vanish from the sky; steam rises up in the conflagration, a high flame plays against heaven itself. Seeress's ... see all copies from $3.87! new only from $4.87! \| SVS
2	Miss Julie more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist In this fin de siecle parable of class tension and gender war, a wealthy woman engages a man on her staff in a summer's night of passion, including fights, sex, dreams for a shared future in which their social differences won't matter, and disillusionment when they realize how stuck in their lives they really are. This play was written in 1888. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Letters from Africa 1914-1931 more books like this by Isak Dinesen, Frans Lasson add to wishlist A collection of the letters sent by Baroness Blixen to friends and relatives in Europe during the seventeen years she lived on a coffee plantation in Kenya, translated from the original Danish. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| first editions
4	An Enemy of the People more books like this by Henrik Ibsen add to wishlist This is a fresh and contemporary translation of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" by Nicholas Rudall. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Strindberg, Five Plays more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist A collection of Strindberg's most frequently performed plays: "The Father"; "Miss Julie"; "A Dream Play; "The Dance of Death"; and "The Ghost Sonata". These translations aim to capture the spirit of the original Swedish texts while embracing colloquial, spoken English. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.61! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Miss Julie & other plays more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death 'Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, 'while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century. The five plays ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.05! \| SVS
7	Doll's House and Other Plays more books like this by H Ibsen add to wishlist "The League of Youth" (1869) was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social drama and marks a turning-point in his style. By 1879, Ibsen was convinced that women suffer an inevitable violation of their personalities within the context of marriage. In "A Doll's House", he portrayed the wife struggling to break free: this was unheard of at the time ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| SVS
8	The Man Whom Women Loved: The Life of Bror Blixen more books like this by Ulf Aschan add to wishlist A fascinating biography of the man who was husband to Isak Dinesen, archetypal hero for Ernest Hemingway, and a romantic figure of mythic passions for women and safari adventure. 80 black-and-white photographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.96! \| first editions
9	Selected poems more books like this by W. H. Auden add to wishlist Auden's poems are treasured for their wit and intelligence, their meticulous craftsmanship, and their deep feeling for social and moral issues as well as personal ones. In the words of Stephen Spender at Auden's memorial service in Oxford, "[T]hroughout the whole development of his poetry...his theme had been love: not Romantic love but love as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.33! \| first editions
10	The complete major prose plays more books like this by Henrik Johan Ibsen add to wishlist This collection ranges from the impassioned exposure of hypocrisy and deception in "Pillars of Society" to the near-dreamline symbolism of "When We Dead Awaken." The treatments of the role of women in "A Doll House"; of family guilt in "Ghosts; " of sexuality in "Rosmersholm; " of the individual vs. society in "An Ememy of the People; " of the ... see all copies from $12.13! new only from $89.34! \| first editions
11	An introduction to Old Norse. more books like this by E. V. Gordon add to wishlist see all copies from $29.00! new only from $73.55! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Either/Or more books like this by Soren Kierkegaard add to wishlist This volume contains the writings of a young man (I) and of Judge William (II). The ironical young man's papers include a collection of sardonic aphorisms; essays on Mozart, modern dram, and boredom; and 'the Seducer's Diary.' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.24! \| first editions
13 view cover	Text and Supertext in Ibsen's Drama more books like this by Brian Johnston add to wishlist see all copies from $3.95! new only from $4.63! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Ghosts more books like this by Henrik Ibsen add to wishlist Ghosts is Ibsen's formidably realistic play about the effects of previous generations on the young, a stinging satire on contemporary Norwegian society and morality, and a haunting tragedy that, more than a century since it premiered, still retains its power to shock. In Ibsen's study of the lingering poison in a marriage based on a lie, Osvald ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Four Major Plays, Volume II more books like this by Henrik Johan Ibsen, Rolf Fjelde (Translator), Terry Otten (Afterword by) add to wishlist Four of Ibsen's plays centering upon personal awakening and inner transformation through confrontations with family guilt, social hypocrisy, conventional and sexual morality, and the materialistic bourgeois ethic are collected in this second volume of his major plays. Includes "Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Lady from the Sea", and "John ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Ghosts, an Enemy of the People, the Wild Duck Notes more books like this by Henrik Johan Ibsen, Marianne Sturman add to wishlist Because Ibsenite drama has become part of the history of the theater, a study of his work gives us a special insight into contemporary writings. The Modern 'theater of the absurd, ' for instance, expressing a personal alienation from society, is merely another form of the social criticism which Ibsen first inspired. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00!
17 view cover	The Quintessence of Ibsenism more books like this by G Bernard Shaw add to wishlist Great critic and dramatist's commentary on Ibsen's aims and methods, including evaluations of plays: "Brand," "Peer Gynt," "Ghosts," "Hedda Gabler," others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.99! \| first editions
18	Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa: The Untold Story more books like this by Linda Donelson add to wishlist A biography of Danish writer Karen Blixen, who wrote her famous memoir of life in Africa during the early part of the 20th-century under the name Isak Dinesen. This story covers similar ground as "Out of Africa", yet provides the true details surrounding Blixen's life and African experience. Blixen and cousin/husband Baron Bror Blixen left ... see all copies from $5.40! new only from $77.65!
19 view cover	Swedish: An Elementary Grammar-Reader more books like this by Gladys Hird, Jonathan Hird add to wishlist This grammar-reader is based on almost twenty years' experience of teaching beginners the Swedish language and is reassuringly practical in approach. Miss Hird's aims are threefold: to provide a compromise between the traditional grammar-readers and the new textbooks which are not designed for beginners outside Sweden; to supply grammatical ... see all copies from $27.97! new only from $33.69! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Works of Henrik Ibsen more books like this by Henrik Ibsen add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FEAST AT SOLHOUG INTRODUCTION Exactly a year after the production of Lady Inger of Ostrat?that is to say on the "Foundation Day" of the Bergen Theatre, January 2, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Alphabet more books like this by Inger Christensen, Susanna Nied (Translator) add to wishlist This translation, recipient of the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize, brings the work of this celebrated Danish poet to English language readers for the first time. The poems here are based on Fibonacci's sequence, a mathematical pattern in which each number is the sum of the two that come before it. Everyday situations and imagery ... see all copies from $6.91! new only from $6.91! \| SVS
22 view cover	Studies in human time more books like this by Georges Poulet add to wishlist see all copies from $4.18! first editions
23 view cover	Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theatre, Philosophy more books like this by Toril Moi add to wishlist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a boring old realist, whose plays are of interest only because they remain the gateway to modern theater. In Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of ... see all copies from $12.97! new only from $35.58! \| SVS
24	Strindberg: A Biography more books like this by Michael Meyer add to wishlist This biography of Strindberg reveals previously unknown details about his three tempestuous marriages, his dabblings in the occult, his recurrent bouts of madness, and his friendships with Gauguin, Munch, and Delius, that were the touchstones of his tormented life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
25 view cover	Three Plays more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist The three plays in this volume focus on the tumultuous relationships between men and women, whether they are father and daughter, brother and sister or lovers. "Miss Julie" is a ruthlessly realistic depiction of an upper class woman's seduction of a servant, emphasizing the differences and the antagonism between them. In "The Father", a man is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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