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  • Published: 30 October 2003
  • ISBN: 9780141928371
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays




The final volume in the new Penguin Ibsen series: superb modern translations of four of Ibsen's greatest plays

In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner's struggle to hide the sins of his past at the expense of another man's reputation, while in The Wild Duck (1884) an idealist, believing he must tell the truth at any cost, destroys a family by exposing the lie behind his friend's marriage. And Hedda Gabler (1890) portrays an unhappily married woman who is unable to break free from the conventional life she has created for herself, with tragic results for the entire family.

  • Published: 30 October 2003
  • ISBN: 9780141928371
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

Other books in the series

Emma
Persuasion
A Dog's Heart
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
On Sparta
Man and Superman
Saint Joan
Botchan
Kusamakura
Love
Annals
Selected Poems
Military Dispatches

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