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Master Builder (Gosse & Archer Translation)

Tragedy

480

Henrik Ibsen - Master Builder (Gosse & Archer Translation)

Halvard Solness is a master architect who has ruthlessly forged a preëminent career without regard for the feelings of those around him. In spite of this unscrupulous path of life, his conscience is still painfully...

Expatriate 2 hours 57 minutes

Hedda Gabler (version 2)

Tragedy

490

Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler (version 2)

Hedda Gabler has just returned from her honeymoon. She has married out of ennui, and is already heartily sick of her husband, who is a plodding, pedantic academic. Upon moving into her new Christiania home, she soon...

Expatriate 3 hours 27 minutes

Tragedy

537

Henrik Ibsen - Brand

Inflamed by what he saw as his Norwegian homeland's shocking betrayal of Denmark after the Prussian invasion of Danish territory, Ibsen wrote «Brand» as an indictment of human complacency and rigidity of mind....

Expatriate 4 hours 57 minutes

Little Eyolf (Mencken Translation)

Drama

476

Henrik Ibsen - Little Eyolf (Mencken Translation)

One of the four profound plays of Ibsen’s late period (along with “The Master Builder,” “John Gabriel Borkman,” and “When We Dead Awaken”), “Little Eyolf” tells the story of Albert Allmers, a writer who has yearned to...

Expatriate 2 hours 38 minutes

Pillars of Society

Drama

530

Henrik Ibsen - Pillars of Society

Pillars of Society was Ibsen's first successful realist drama, first performed in 1877. Karsten Bernick is the dominant businessman in a small coastal town in Norway, with interests in shipping and shipbuilding in a...

3 hours 12 minutes

John Gabriel Borkman

Drama

451

Henrik Ibsen - John Gabriel Borkman

John Gabriel Borkman is the penultimate play of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, written in 1896. The Borkman family fortunes have been brought low by the imprisonment of John Gabriel who used his position as a...

2 hours 20 minutes

When We Dead Awaken

Tragedy

442

Henrik Ibsen - When We Dead Awaken

When We Dead Awaken (1899) is the last play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Dreamlike and highly symbolic, the play charts the dissolution of sculptor Arnold Rubek's marriage to Maia, her flirtation with Ulfheim,...

1 hour 46 minutes

Enemy of the People

Plays

463

Henrik Ibsen - Enemy of the People

A small coastal town in Norway is experiencing an economic boom from its newly found hot springs. When Dr. Thomas Stockmann finds that the waters are contaminated and dangerous, the people refuse to accept his...

2 hours 57 minutes

Ghosts

Plays

461

Henrik Ibsen - Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was first published in 1881 and staged in 1882, and like his earlier play A Doll's House, profoundly shocked his contemporaries. Dubbed «a dirty deed done in public» by one of its critics, the...

2 hours 10 minutes

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Ghosts (version 2)

Plays

474

Henrik Ibsen - Ghosts (version 2)

A Family-drama in three acts. Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality. (Summary by Kristingj) Cast: Mrs. Helen Alving, widow of Captain Alving:...

K.G.Cross 2 hours 33 minutes

Lady From the Sea

Drama

480

Henrik Ibsen - Lady From the Sea

The title character in Ibsen's drama, Ellida Wangel, is married to a prosperous doctor, but feels stifled by her roles as wife and stepmother to her husband's two daughters by a previous marriage, Hilde and Bolette....

2 hours 42 minutes

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Peer Gynt

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Henrik Ibsen - Peer Gynt

Peer is a dreamer, liar, excellent storyteller and an irresponsible person who avoids all problems. He uses and discards women and looks towards the grandiose, the unattainable. Despite of this, one can't help but...

5 hours 18 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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