Author: Henrik Ibsen

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9781150666803

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Heinemann Subjects: Drama / General Drama / Continental European Fiction / Classics Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / European / Scandinavian Literary Criticism / Drama Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Brack. [Smiling.] H'm -- my dear Mrs. Hedda Hedda. Oh, I know what you are going to say. For you are a kind of specialist too, like -- you know ! Brack. [Looking hard at her.] Eilert Lovborg was more to you than perhaps you are willing to admit to yourself. Am I wrong? Hedda. I don't answer such questions. I only know that Eilert Lovborg has had the courage to live his life after his own fashion. And then -- the last great act, with its beauty ! Ah ! that he should have the will and the strength to turn away from the banquet of life -- so early. Brack. I am sorry, Mrs. Hedda, -- but I fear I must dispel an amiable illusion. Hedda. Illusion ? Brack. Which could not have lasted long in any case. Hedda. What do you mean ? Brack. Eilert Lovborg did not shoot himself -- voluntarily. Hedda. Not voluntarily ? Brack. No. The thing did not happen exactly as I told it. Hedda. [In suspense.] Have you concealed something ? What is it ? Brack. For poor Mrs. Elvsted's sake I idealised the facts a little. Hedda. What are the facts ? Brack. First, that he is already dead. Hedda. At the hospital ? Brack. Yes -- without regaining consciousness. Hedda. What more have you concealed ? Brack. This -- the event did not happen at his lodgings. Hedda. Oh, that can make no difference. Brack. Perhaps it may. For I must tell you -- Eilert Lovborg was found shot in -- in Ma...