Ghosts by Henrik Johan Ibsen

Ghosts

Henrik Johan Ibsen with R. Farquharson Sharp (Translator)

92 pages first pub 1964 (editions)

fiction classics play challenging reflective slow-paced

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"Ghosts" is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her deceased husband and by her son who has inherited syphilis from his philandering father. "Ghosts" is a scathing indictment of Victorian society in which Ib...

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