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  Denne norske ebokutgaven av Peer Gynt er basert på “Folkeutgaven” av Henrik Ibsens samlede verker, utgitt av Gyldendal i årene 1898-1902 og er gjengitt i det felles dansk-norske skriftspråk, slik de originalt ble utgitt i Ibsens tid.   (This Norwegian...

En værdig Mand er død! I kraftig Alder Han gik fra Børn og Hustru, Kjødets Gang. Vor tunge Taare paa hans Aske falder, Imens vi synger en fiirstemmig Sang. En trofast Ægtemand, en kjærlig Fader, En ærlig Ven, en Borger som kun Faa, Er tabt for os og...

Det er nu om ved tyve Aar siden, at jeg udsendte min første Digtsamling, "Derude fra Kjærene". Senere er der fulgt fem efter foruden et Udvalg: "Liv og Sang". I Almindelighed ordner man vel sine Vers efter deres Indhold og Samhørighed; sørger saavidt muligt for, at...

A BOWR herude o æ Hie en hal Mils Vej te Øster, der haar a Lov aa spild mi Tie Mi Bøen ka lieg omkring æ Damm og spytt saalaant, a lyster,  og trimmel To med Kaaren; mi Awteskuen ku gjør det samm, skjønt hun er stywlelaaren. Med Greef...

Стефан Цвейг — один из популярнейших австрийских писателей. Его книги захватывают читателя с первых строк, щедро одаривая радостью узнавания и сопереживания до самых...

The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda

Victor Hugo is best known most for his epic novels Les Miserables and The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. However in his day he was equally famed for his Poetry of which he wrote many volumes. The masterful Hugo loses none of his insightful scope writing on a smaller scale. Indeed, the disciplines and structures...

Victor Hugo is best known most for his epic novels Les Miserables and The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. However in his day he was equally famed for his Poetry of which he wrote many volumes. The masterful Hugo loses none of his insightful scope writing on a smaller scale. Indeed, the disciplines and structures...

Torquemada, a drama about the Spanish inquisition, is one of the greatest masterpieces of the master poet of the 19th century. The construction of this tragedy is absolutely original and unique: free and full of change as the wildest and loosest and roughest of dramatic structures ever flung together,...

'Oliver Cromwell' was written in 1827, but was not performed until 1956. The reasons were its length of almost 7000 verses and Hugo's gigantic list of characters. The drama tells the story of Oliver Cromwell's internal conflicts in being offered the crown of England. The preface is nowadays considered as one of the manifestos of the Romantic movement.

The drama 'Hernani' tells the story of Doña Sol, the sun of Madrid, who is loved by Don Carlos, king of Spain, by the old duke, Ruy Gomez, and by Hernani, leader of the revolutionists, upon whose head a price is set. Doña Sol loves only Hernani; she receives him secretly at night in the house of...

Le roi s'amuse, best translated as 'The King Amuses Himself', is a play in five acts. It is set in Paris in the 1520s and the plot was used for Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto. The main person of the play is Triboulet, a witty court jester, through whose words Hugo frequently attacks contemporary society.

In her tragically short life, Charlotte Mew produced poetry that was intense, emotional, original, and praised by her contemporaries Dylan Thomas, Ezra Pound, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf. Gathered together by Ireland's most distinguished modern female poet, this collection includes a diverse range of her work, dealing with pain, love, and feminist themes.

This enhanced ebook with includes audio files of Brendan Kennelly reading his poems drawn from four classic recordings made in Dublin in 1982, 1998, 1999 and 2002. These include recordings of 32 individual poems as well asfour extracts from his book-length poem The Man Made of Rain. Brendan...