ibsenist

Updated: May 6, 2025

I was not Ibsenist even at second hand; for Lever, though he may have read Henri Beyle, alias Stendhal, certainly never read Ibsen. Of the books that made Lever popular, such as Charles O'Malley and Harry Lorrequer, I know nothing but the names and some of the illustrations.

Bernard Shaw - Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara