Peer Gynt
a dramatic poem
About this book
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
- continental european drama (dramatic works by one author)
- drama
- english drama
- film adaptations
- gynt, peer (fictitious character), drama
- norwegian drama
- norwegian literature
- norwegian national characteristics
- peasants
- peer gynt (fictitious character)
- plays
- self
- translations into english
- travel
- young adult fiction