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An Enemy of the People

Author
Henrik Ibsen
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
150 pages
ISBN
9781909904507
Published
15 October 2013
Imprint
Sovereign
  • An Enemy of the People
  • Henrik Ibsen
  • Ibsen
  • drama
  • realism
  • modernism
  • plays
  • comedy
  • tragedy
  • symbolism

Description

A successful entrepreneur Stockmann, a popular citizen of a small coastal town turned into a villain as he discovers that the town's source of pride and income is contaminated. The town has invested a large amount of public and private money towards the development of baths, a project led by Stockmann and his brother, Peter, the Mayor. The town is expecting a surge in tourism and prosperity from the new baths, which are said to be of great medicinal value, and as such, a source of great local pride. Just as the baths are proving successful, Stockmann discovers that waste products from the town's tannery are contaminating the waters, causing serious illness amongst the tourists.

Author

Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) is often called the father of modern drama — a Norwegian playwright who turned the bourgeois living room into a stage of moral crisis. A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and An Enemy of the People made silence, shame, and respectability explosive. Ibsen pioneered theatrical realism while also writing poetic epics such as Peer Gynt. What a household will not say becomes the plot; the doors still slam.