A Doll's House (Wisehouse Classics)

I was going to be seeing the play “A Doll’s House 2” and wanted to learn and read about the first novel! The origin story. It was so controversial for the time and you were in suspense as to what would happen! Quite exciting a read! I immediately bought a ticket to see “A Doll’s House”play next month. The message was important for the time and still remains important today even though there have been some societal changes. A worthy read and then the follow up volume. Applause!

Obviously many people still want to keep the classics in their library, and most of the books have been transferred to ebooks. The problem with these are that a lot of stuff doesn't get in like a cover or description. With these Wisehouse Classics you get it all, including original drawings (only in select books) that were in the original books giving the book personality. If I want to read something I always go for the description to decide. There are so many books from the greatest authors that get passed over daily. I hope they do even more because I would get them all.

From other reviews, or your own familiarity with Ibsen's famous—and in 1879 scandalous—play, you'll know the basic story and characters of "A Doll's House." It remains a classic, well worth being performed by superior actors. The latter are in abundance in this 1959 production: the incomparable Julie Harris as tormented Nora, Christopher Plummer as her self-preoccupied husband, Hume Cronyn (excellent) as Krogstad the catalyst—not quite a villain, but by his own admission a desperate man who takes desperate, damaging measures—Jason Robards, Jr., as Dr. Rank, Nora's unrequited lover, and Eileen Heckart as Nora's friend Kristine, for whose love Krogstad pines. For 1959—for any year, in fact—this is as fine an ensemble as one could imagine. George Schaefer, from television's golden age, produced and directed.Reluctantly I've deducted one star for primitive production values. Viewers should know that this is a live production, videotaped as a kinescope. As a consequence the lovely set design is visually murky, the audio is indistinct, and various technical glitches mar the illusion: boom mic shadows on the set, intrusive cameras whose timing were off, visual compositions and cuts between cameras that are not as sharp as they could have been had the players been able to retake certain scenes. If you can disregard these things, you'll be rewarded by a splendid performance of a play whose issues continue to resonate strongly to this day.

Five stars for the story. However, I have to rate the Chios edition with one star to encourage readers to seek out a better edition.The public domain edition (green cover, free download) uses italics when describing the scene or naming the character who is speaking. Only the dialogue is in unitalicized text, making it easier to read. The Wisehouse Classics edition, while containing a few minor typos, has even better formatting, using both indentation and italics to make it easy on the eyes. The Wisehouse edition was also free when I downloaded it.You can click the preview option for each Kindle edition to compare. This edition (Chios) is not well-formatted. No need to pay for it when better editions are available for free download.

I have this `weird` thing of preferring to read plays, rather than see them performed. Henrik Ibsen is one of my favorite writers and I enjoyed reading again one of his best plays (accordingly to me), `A Doll's House`. It's a play with a powerful message, presenting strong internal conflicts, but it's still a somewhat easy read.`A Doll's House` for me it's not just a book about women self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world; it's a book about the duality of relationships, about the duality of each individual (which can make big sacrifices and act selfish at the same time).I like the way Henrik Ibsen constructs the external and internal conflicts, stating somethings clear, letting some aspects just as hints to the reader.I prefer not to get too much into details of the book synopsis in reviews, but this is a good book in my opinion for people to enjoy reading plays.I read the book in the Kindle format, which didn't make it too troublesome to read. The lines of the play fit decently even on a smartphone display, although longer lines might be harder to follow.

Ibsen’s famous play, probably the most popular nowadays shouldn’t really need much introduction as chances are that you are already aware of it if you are looking at this item. I should stress however that if you are more than just a general reader for instance a student, then this particular edition will not really be ideal for you, as there is no introduction, notes or analysis, something which you will probably need.Set over a Christmas it emerges that Nora has been keeping a very large secret from her husband Torvald. But as events start to pan out she has to tell her friend Christine, what she has done. Fearing for her husband’s health Nora managed to get a loan, but how she got it wasn’t strictly honest. With the man she got the loan from likely to lose his job he has come to Nora with intent to blackmail. As the play unfurls we see how what at the beginning looks like a normal happy marriage isn’t really so. As layers are drawn back we see that there are some problems here.Ibsen showed here how a marriage can start to fall apart and indeed this does read in some ways like a kitchen sink drama, something that really never started to come about until the 1950s. Ibsen showed his audience true life and with it glaring back at them this did cause quite some controversy throughout Europe. Starting over the issue of money and the need of it for the Helmer family to provide suitable convalescence for the man of the house, this then goes on to the effects caused by Nora managing to raise it in secrecy, and with the final denouement how this could affect the family name and honour. We read all this here and what course of action is taken by Nora at the end, and what really gets her goat about her marriage.Due to the nitty gritty realism here this was so controversial in Germany, that even to be performed the ending had to be altered, thus taking away from the full impact of the whole play. This play has been hailed as a piece of pro- feminism, and yes it can be said that it is, but Ibsen never set out to create anything pro-feminist, instead he wrote and based this on a true event. This is always a pure pleasure to read and if you are into drama then this is a must have if you have not already got a copy, or if like me, ideal to download to your kindle so you have a copy to carry around with you.

TERRIBLE!!!The covers look like a 5 year old put them together, but the main issue is the play's formatting. It is really unclear who is speaking, as the name is lowercase, with a full stop after it to denote who is speaking. Frequently a new line isn't started even started, but just appears in the previous speaker's dialogue, so it appears as if the previous person is merely saying their name. It is diabolical, completely unfit for study, I had to buy another, different copy for my A-Level study

Ibsen’s famous play, probably the most popular nowadays shouldn’t really need much introduction as chances are that you are already aware of it if you are looking at this item. I should stress however that if you are more than just a general reader for instance a student, then this particular edition will not really be ideal for you, as there is no introduction, notes or analysis, something which you will probably need.Set over a Christmas it emerges that Nora has been keeping a very large secret from her husband Torvald. But as events start to pan out she has to tell her friend Christine, what she has done. Fearing for her husband’s health Nora managed to get a loan, but how she got it wasn’t strictly honest. With the man she got the loan from likely to lose his job he has come to Nora with intent to blackmail. As the play unfurls we see how what at the beginning looks like a normal happy marriage isn’t really so. As layers are drawn back we see that there are some problems here.Ibsen showed here how a marriage can start to fall apart and indeed this does read in some ways like a kitchen sink drama, something that really never started to come about until the 1950s. Ibsen showed his audience true life and with it glaring back at them this did cause quite some controversy throughout Europe. Starting over the issue of money and the need of it for the Helmer family to provide suitable convalescence for the man of the house this then goes on to the effects caused by Nora managing to raise it in secrecy, and with the final denouement how this could affect the family name and honour. We read all this here and what course of action is taken by Nora at the end, and what really gets her goat about her marriage.Due to the nitty gritty realism here this was so controversial in Germany, that even to be performed the ending had to be altered, thus taking away from the full impact of the whole play. This play has been hailed as a piece of pro- feminism, and yes it can be said that it is, but Ibsen never set out to create anything pro-feminist, instead he wrote and based this on a true event. This is always a pure pleasure to read and if you are into drama then this is a must have if you have not already got a copy, or if like me, ideal to download to your kindle so you have a copy to carry around with you.

Ordered this as I needed it for my A Level English,not really too much to say about the product other then it came earlier than expected (nice surprise) and without any faults. The book was in perfect condition upon arrival,none of the text was missing/faded and like I said delivery was earlier then expected.The only small problem with the book is the durability,after being in my bag for a few months being chucked around the spine has started to rip/crease along with the front cover-however this is to be expected considering it's paperback and is being extensively used. Overall a great purchase!

This book is good for a light read. It’s about a woman going against stereotypes within the 1800’s living in a patriarchal society.

Although in good condition, the book was sold as not having notes or highlighting- this wasn’t the case: it’s full of notes. Hopefully they’ll be useful ones!!

It isn't the best in terms of translation. Sometimes sentences didn't make sense. It hasn't been checked over for errors either because sometimes the names of the characters were on the wrong lines. But of a mess if I'm honest

Slight damage to the back cover but not significant enough to mess around with returning. Was purchased as a school read!

My daughter found it really useful for her A level studies.

I think that this version was probably translated using Google Translate or something similar. At times the translation was so bad that it was impossible to understand, At other points, the translation was so muddled that it was funny. What a shame!

This translation appears to have been carried out by a computer and is largely gibberish. This was not made clear. A complete waste of money. I shall certainly order a preview sample next time before buying a translated text!

for A level studies.

Served me very well for my english exam.

Good explanations and history at the beginning

Do not buy this. There is a kindle format edition for free which is much better translation. Only wish I had seen it first.