Peer Gynt
Americannoun
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Like Peer Gynt in search of a greater truth, Oliphant willingly pitted himself against larger-than-life beasts and lived to tell the tale.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2025
The play is a modernised version of the Ibsen classic Peer Gynt.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2019
We discussed my fascination with a scene from Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, the peeling of the onion.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2014
She received a season high 122.21 points, nonetheless, for the difficult performance set to Peer Gynt.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2014
Like his countryman, Peer Gynt, a century later, though under somewhat different conditions, Mr. Klim ultimately is chosen Emperor by the Quamites, but this proves to be too much for him.
From Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student by Hammer, Simon Christian
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