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    Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
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    Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Henrik Ibsen

    Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) is the Norwegian playwright deemed the “father of realism.” Born in Skien, Norway, Ibsen was exiled in 1862 to Italy, where he wrote the tragedy Brand. After moving to Germany in 1868, he wrote A Doll’s House (1879), one of his most famous works; Hedda Gabler (1890), the title character of which is one of theater’s most notorious roles; and many other plays. In 1891, Ibsen returned to Norway, where he remained until his death.

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      Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Henrik Ibsen

      The Complete Works of

      HENRIK IBSEN

      VOLUME 22 OF 29

      Little Eyolf

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2013

      Version 1

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Little Eyolf’

      Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition (in 29 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 592 2

      Delphi Classics

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      Delphi Publishing Ltd

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      Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 22 of the Delphi Classics edition of Henrik Ibsen in 29 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Little Eyolf from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Henrik Ibsen, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Henrik Ibsen or the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen in a single eBook.

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      HENRIK IBSEN

      IN 29 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Plays

      1, Catiline

      2, The Burial Mound

      3, Lady Inger of Oestraat

      4, The Feast at Solhaug

      5, Olaf Liljekrans

      6, The Vikings at Helgeland

      7, Love’s Comedy

      8, The Pretenders

      9, Brand

      10, Peer Gynt

      11, The League of Youth

      12, Emperor and Galilean

      13, Pillars of Society

      14, A Doll’s House

      15, Ghosts

      16, An Enemy of the People

      17, The Wild Duck

      18, Rosmersholm

      19, The Lady from the Sea

      20, Hedda Gabler

      21, The Master Builder

      22, Little Eyolf

      23, John Gabriel Borkman

      24, When We Dead Awaken

      The Poems

      25, The Poetry

      The Norwegian Texts (De norske tekster)

      26, The Original Texts

      The Non-Fiction

      27, Speeches and New Letters

      The Criticism

      28, The Criticism

      The Biography

      29, The Life of Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse

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      Little Eyolf

      Translated by William Archer

      Little Eyolf was written in 1894, while Ibsen was living in an apartment on Victoria Terrasse in Christiania. At the time Ibsen wrote: I have now begun to plan a new drama, which I intend to complete during the coming summer. I find it easy to work here, and it is very pleasant having one’s own independent home. Ibsen made a large number of corrections and changes in the first draft, before making a fair copy, which was sent to the publisher on October 13, 1894. Little Eyolf was published by Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag in Copenhagen and Christiania on December 11, 1894 in 10,000 copies, which were extremely popular and were soon sold out. Only ten days later, on December 21st another 2,000 copies were published and a further 1,250 on January 20, 1895. The play’s reception by the Scandinavian press was almost exclusively positive.

      As with Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder, the English publisher William Heinemann published Little Eyolf in a mini-edition of 12 copies in Norwegian in London, in order to secure the copyright. This took place on the same day as the Gyldendal edition, December 11, 1894.

      The first performance was at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin on January 12, 1895 and the production was directed by Otto Brahm, who had recently been appointed director of the theatre. The parts of Alfred and Rita were played by Emanuel Reicher and Agnes Sorma. The production played to full houses and received a great deal of attention, though its reception was mixed among audiences and critics.

      Little Eyolf tells the story of the Allmer family. At the start of the play, the father, Alfred, has just returned from a visit to the mountains. While there, he resolved to focus foremost on raising his son Eyolf, rather than continue work on his book, Human Responsibility. Eyolf, though described as having beautiful, intelligent eyes, is paralyzed in one of his legs and thus his life is a sheltered one. He craves more than anything else to live the life of a normal boy, but his father knows that this is not possible. As such, Alfred wants to turn Eyolf towards loftier and more intellectual pursuits.

      The Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where this play was first performed

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION.

      CHARACTERS

      ACT FIRST

      ACT SECOND

      ACT THIRD

      The first edition

      INTRODUCTION.

      Little Eyolf was written in Christiania during 1894, and published in Copenhagen on December 11 in that year. By this time Ibsen’s correspondence has become so scanty as to afford us no clue to what may be called the biographical antecedents of the play. Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it. For only one of the characters has a definite model been suggested. Ibsen himself told his French translator, Count Prozor, that the original of the Rat-Wife was a little old woman who came to kill rats at the school where he was educated. She carried a little dog in a bag, and it was said that children had been drowned through following her. This means that Ibsen did not himself adapt to his uses the legend so familiar to us in Browning’s Pied Piper of Hamelin, but found it ready adapted by the popular imagination of his native place, Skien. This idea, Ibsen continued to Count Prozor, "was just what I wanted for bringing about the disappearance of Little Eyolf, in whom the infatuation [Note: The French word used by Count Prozor is infatuation. I can think of no other rendering for it; but I do not quite know what it means as applied to Allmers and Eyolf.] and the feebleness of his father reproduced, but concentrated, exaggerated, as one often sees them in the son of such a father." Dr. Elias tells us that a well-known lady-artist, who in middle life suggested to him the figure of Lona Hessel, was in later years the model for the Rat-Wife. There is no inconsistency between these two accounts of the matter. The idea was doubtless suggested by his recollection of the rat-catcher of Skien, while traits of manner and physiognomy might be borrowed from the lady in question.

      The verse quoted on pp. 52 and 53 [Transcriber’s Note: There stood the champagne, etc., in ACT I] is the last line of a very well-known

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