Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Lady From the Sea
The name of Henrik Ibsen has now become so familiar to the English public that it seems almost needless to remind the reader of the incidents of his life. I may, however, be permitted to repeat once more that the most illustrious Scandinavian writer of our age was born in the little timber-port of Skien, in Norway, on the 20th of March, 1828. His parents were Norwegian by citizenship, but of a stock in which Danish, German, and Scotch elements were curiously mingled. Like Keats, he was brought up to busy himself among "plasters, pills, and ointment boxes," but soon threw off this bondage of the apothecary. In 1850 he published a stiff historical tragedy of "Catalina." From this he rose, slowly but steadily, to poetical work more characteristic of himself.
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