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The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen/Volume 13

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HENRIK IBSEN


BY

EDMUND GOSSE



ILLUSTRATED



NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

1908


Copyright 1907 by

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS


Gosse Henrik Ibsen 1908 Frontispiece

Photoby. Nyblom KristianiaAlexander P. Holb

CONTENTS

Page
Preface ix
CHAPTER I  
Childhood and Youth 1
CHAPTER II  
Early Influences 25
CHAPTER III  
Life in Bergen (1852-57) 51
CHAPTER IV  
The Satires (1857-67) 78
CHAPTER V  
1868-75 110
CHAPTER VI  
1875-82 134
CHAPTER VII  
1883-91 156
CHAPTER VIII  
Last Years 179
CHAPTER IX  
Personal Characteristics 211
CHAPTER X  
Intellectual Characteristics 233

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


Henrik Ibsen Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Ibsen in 1868 32
Ibsen in Dresden, Octorber 1873 64
From a drawing by Gustav Laerum 88
Facsimile of Ibsen’s Handwriting 116
Ibsen. From the painting by Eilif Petersen 190
Bust of Ibsen, about 1865 214