# The Master Builder and Other Plays

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- Authors: [Henrik Ibsen](https://www.bookquiver.com/henrik-ibsen)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-143-9
- Published: 2006-06-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The four plays in this volume, written late in Ibsen's career as a dramatist, move away from his earlier preoccupation with people at odds with society to instead explore the inward struggle with their own thoughts, feelings and dreams. The Master Builder (1892) depicts a powerful man whose illusions collapse in the face of a young woman's courageous common sense. In Rosmersholm (1886), an idealist is forced to question his beliefs and confront terrible truths about the past, while Little Eyolf (1894) portrays a man's self-deception, which brings both tragic repercussions for his family and new hope for their future. And in John Gabriel Borkman (1896), a dying woman returns to reclaim the affections and loyalty of her nephew, resulting in a bitter struggle with her sister.