Peer Gynt
ByHenrik Ibsen,Christopher Fry(Translator),+1 more
1867 • 169 pages

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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.

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Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
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