Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

"Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen is a play written in 1881. This controversial drama follows widow Helen Alving as she prepares to dedicate an orphanage in memory of her unfaithful late husband. When her son Oswald returns home, long-buried family secrets begin to surface, threatening to destroy the carefully maintained façade of respectability. The play explores the devastating consequences of following society's moral code, confronting taboo subjects that scandalized 19th-century audiences and challenged conventional notions of duty, truth, and maternal sacrifice. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
Translator Archer, William, 1856-1924
Uniform Title Gengangere. English
Title Ghosts
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(play)
Credits Produced by Nicole Apostola, and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 85.9 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Families -- Drama
Subject Europe -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Drama
Subject Tragedies (Drama)
Subject Mothers and sons -- Drama
Subject Norwegian drama -- Translations into English
Subject Domestic drama
Category Text
EBook-No. 8121
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Oct 2, 2017
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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