Peer Gynt (Nick Hern Books/Drama Classics)

Description:

Peer Gynt is a charming but lazy and arrogant peasant youth who leaves home to seek his fortune. Confident of success, he has one disastrous adventure after another. In one, he attends the wedding of a wealthy young woman he himself might have married. There he meets Solveig, who falls in love with him.

subjects: Drama,  Peer Gynt (Fictitious character),  Norwegian drama,  Translations into English,  Film adaptations,  Norwegian National characteristics,  Peasants,  Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author),  Gynt, peer (fictitious character), drama,  English drama,  Plays,  Travel,  Norwegian literature,  Young adult fiction

People: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)

Places: Norway