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Excerpt from Little Eyolf: Newly Translated From the Definitive Dano-Norwegian TextGhosts, Hedda Gabler and other plays be fore it, marriage is Ibsen's theme - marriage, that is, as civilization has burdened it and complicated it. In the days of Tubal Cain a man bought a wife, and that was the end of it. No clashes of discordant personalities came afterward, to cause disquiet. The man got food for the household and the woman cooked it and bore children. Neither was troubled by a variance between the yearnings of temperament and the demands of duty. Much the same simplicity is to be found in the more ele mental sort of fiction to-day; and also, perhaps, among the more elemental classes of human beings, even in civilized societies. The hero meets the hero ine, acquires an ambition to make her his wife, and at some cost of blood, sleep, money and skill at fence, accomplishes his aim. Their relations after that give the chronicler no concern. Once mar ried, they are happy, ipso facto, forevermore.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.