The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen/Volume 13
HENRIK IBSEN
BY
EDMUND GOSSE
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1908
Copyright 1907 by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
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 |