Publisher's Synopsis
Henrik Ibsen was born in Norway, March 20, 1828, and lived there until 1864, when, in his distress that Sweden and Norway would not help Denmark to resist Prussia, he wrote scornful epigrams about his fellow-countrymen, and since then he has not been in Norway. He lived for some years in Dresden, since 1878 he has been chiefly in Rome, but has no settled home. Of his earlier works, Catilina, Fru Inger, The Comedy of Love, and above all, Rivals for the Crown, 1864, were those that chiefly brought him into notice, until in 1866 Brand gave him a fame that grew with Peer Gynt, Youth's Bond, Emperor and Galilean (translated by Miss C. Ray: S. Tinsley), The Pillars of Society; 1879 The Doll's House appeared, and at Christmas, 1881, Ghosts.
