Henrik Ibsen Books


The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 02 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

Ibsen himself has told us, in his preface to the second edition of The Feast at Solhoug, how the reading of the Icelandic family-sagas suggested to him, in germ, the theme of The Vikings at Helgeland...

BRAND- The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 03 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

Brand was written in the summer of 1865, at Ariccia, near Rome. Fifteen months before, Ibsen had left Christiania, a voluntary exile, eager to escape from the narrow Scandinavian world, and burning wi..

EMPEROR AND GALILEAN - The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 05 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

Ibsen had been in Rome only two or three months when he wrote to Björnson (September 16, 1864): “I am busied with a long poem, and have in preparation a tragedy, Julianus Apostata, a piece of work whi..

PEER GYNT - The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 04 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

The publication of Brand, in March 1866, brought Ibsen fame (in Scandinavia) and relieved him from the immediate pressure of poverty. Two months later the Storthing voted him a yearly “poet-pension” o..