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Peer Gynt

Henrik Ibsen

197088 pagesabout 1–2 hours
1970
first published
  • 1970Oxford U.P. · 169 pages · ENGISBN 9780192113627
  • 1980University of Minnesota Press · 297 pages · ENGISBN 9780816609123
  • 1989Oxford University Press · 169 pages · ENGISBN 9780192822277
  • 1990Faber · 128 pages · ENGISBN 9780571143115
  • 1992Theatre Communications Group · 247 pages · ENGISBN 9781559360463
  • 2008Oberon Books · 96 pages · ENGISBN 9781840028065
  • 1999Oxford University Press, USA · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780192837462
  • 1997Players Pr · 88 pages · ENGISBN 9780887347504
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Peer Gynt is a charming but lazy and arrogant peasant youth who leaves home to seek his fortune. Confident of success, he has one disastrous adventure after another. In one, he attends the wedding of a wealthy young woman he himself might have married. There he meets Solveig, who falls in love with him.

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