THE ATHENAEUMGhostsHenrik Ibsen
Contested
Ghosts
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textMrs Alving has spent her life hiding what her husband was, and builds an orphanage in his name; then her son comes home from Paris carrying his father’s inheritance. Ibsen’s play of 1881 was refused by the theatres of Scandinavia and first staged in Chicago, in Norwegian. A London newspaper called it “an open drain.”
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 1 hr 40 min
- Where to find it
- The Unwelcome Spines, beyond the Restricted Catalogue
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #8121. In the public domain in the United States.