Gosse follows Ibsen from a hard childhood in Skien and apprenticeship as a pharmacist through theatre work in Bergen and Christiania, the satires of his early career, long self-exile in Italy and Germany, the great prose dramas, and his return to Norway, ending with a portrait of the man’s habits and character.
A compact, well-informed biography by one of Ibsen’s earliest English champions. Download the free EPUB.