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Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen

  • Drama
  • Book language: English
  • 75 pages

Ghosts is a three-act realist drama by Henrik Ibsen. A widow prepares to honour her late husband while her son returns home, and long-hidden family secrets and social obligations come to light. It is worth listening to for its searching portrait of duty, hypocrisy, and the past's hold on the present.

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GHOSTS
By Henrik Ibsen
Translated, with an Introduction, by William
Archer
Contents
INTRODUCTION.
The winter of 1879-80 Ibsen spent in Munich, and the
greater part of the summer of 1880 at Berchtesgaden.
November 1880 saw him back in Rome, and he passed the

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Contents

  1. GHOSTS
  2. Translated, with an Introduction, by William Archer
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION.
  5. GHOSTS
  6. ACT FIRST.
  7. ACT SECOND.
  8. ACT THIRD.
  9. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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