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Download or read book A Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Norwegian Text of Henrik Ibsen s Peer Gynt Its Language Literary Associations and Folklore written by H. Logeman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1917 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study of the existing Peer Gynt texts, with the exception of §§ 140, 141 and a few notes added here and there in the text, was written in the spring of 1914 and even com posed down to § 104. It was to have been published in the Recueil de la Faculte de Philo sophie et Lettres de l'Universite de Gand in the September of that year, contemporaneou
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