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Description for Peer Gynt
Paperback. Translator(s): Fry, Christopher; Fillinger, Johann. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2Z; 3JH; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Peer Gynt was Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, and the poetry is brilliantly appropriate to the imaginative swings between Scandinavian oral folk traditions, the Morrocan coast, the Sahara Desert, and the absurdist images of the Cairo madhouse. This translation is taken from the acclaimed Oxford Ibsen. John McFarlane is Emeritus Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and General Editor of the Oxford Ibsen. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each ... Read more
Peer Gynt was Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, and the poetry is brilliantly appropriate to the imaginative swings between Scandinavian oral folk traditions, the Morrocan coast, the Sahara Desert, and the absurdist images of the Cairo madhouse. This translation is taken from the acclaimed Oxford Ibsen. John McFarlane is Emeritus Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and General Editor of the Oxford Ibsen. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
147g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199555536
SKU
V9780199555536
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Ref
99-32
Reviews for Peer Gynt
'Christopher Fry, a poet of genius, has added, in his translation of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, a new work of genius to English Literature. Peer Gynt never 'read right' in English before. Now it does.' Dr R.C. Poole, Dept. of English, University of Nottingham 'an ultimately bleak but nonetheless entertaining classic' Herts Advertiser