IBSEN'S PROSE DRAMAS. 



EDITED BY WILLIAM ARCHER. 



Complete in Five Vols. Crown 8vo, Cloth, Price 3/6 each. 

 Set of Five Vols., in Case, 17/6; in Half Morocco, in Case, 32/6. 



" We seem at last to be shown men and women as they are ; and at first it 

 is more than -we can endure. ... All Ibsen's chaiacters speak and act as if 

 they were hypnotised, and under their creator's imperious demand to reveal 

 themselves. There never was such a mirror held up to nature before : it is 

 too terrible. . . . Yet we must return to Ibsen, with his remorseless surgery, 

 his remorseless electric-light, iintil we, too, have grown strong and learned :o 

 face the naked if necessary ', the flayed and bleeding reality." SPEAKER 

 (London). 



VOL. I. "A DOLL'S HOUSE," "THE LEAGUE OF 

 YOUTH," and "THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY." With 

 Portrait of the Author, and Biographical Introduction by 

 WILLIAM ARCHER. 



VOL. II. "GHOSTS,' 1 "AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE," 

 and "THE WILD DUCK." With an Introductory Note. 



VOL. III. "LADY INGER OF OSTRAT," "THE VIKINGS 

 AT HELGELAND," "THE PRETENDERS." With an 

 Introductory Note and Portrait of Ibsen. 



VOL. IV. "EMPEROR AND GALILEAN." With an 

 Introductory Note by WILLIAM ARCHER. 



VOL. V. "ROSMERSHOLM," "THE LADY FROM THE 

 SEA," "HEDDA GABLER." Translated by WILLIAM 

 ARCHER. With an Introductory Note. 



The sequence of the plays in each volume is chronological ; the complete 

 set of volumes comprising the dramas thus presents them in chronological 

 order. 



" The art of prose translation does not perhaps enjoy a very high literary 

 status in Englan.d, but we have no hesitation in numbering the present 

 version of Ibsen, so far as it has gone (Vols. I. and II.), among the very 

 best achievements, in that kind, of our generation." Academy. 



"We have seldom, if ever, met with a translation so absolutely 

 idiomatic." Glasgow Herald. 



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