Books with title A Doll's House

Laura and Sophie, firm friends though very different characters, find themselves caught up in a magical adventure through the powers of a strange Doll's House that they discover in the old country house of Monks Tarrant on the outskirts of Lyme Regis. The dolls within the house appear to be beset by some mysterious tragedy. Transported back in time to the early 1800's, Laura and Sophie find themselves plunged into a dangerous world of kidnappers, smugglers and a Gypsy Queen. Can Laura and Sophie save the day and return to their own time?

One of the most important works of Norwegian play-writer and author Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906). First published in 1879, A Doll's House remains one of the best-known and most performed plays today. Staged in the Victorian-day home of the Helmer-family, the main character, Nora, entangled in a marriage that threatens to strangle her. In the final act she decides to leave her husband and children to find herself - something utterly unheard of at the time it was first published. The play caused huge debate and can be seen as one of the earliest plays in favour of women's rights.

Mr Grimsworth, a great buffoon of a man, would like nothing more than to rid himself of his canine neighbour. Dog would like nothing more than to bite his neighbour on the bottom. Only the fear of catching some sort of horrible disease stops him. So begins the story of Dog, a loveable untidy hound who just happens to own his very own home, much to the displeasure of Mr Grimsworth.Nobody owned Dog, at least not any more. But that was about to change in a way that neither Dog nor Mr Grimsworth could ever have imagined.With chittering chattering driving Monkeys, Grumpy Rhino's and a love struck Gorilla, life for Dog will never be the same.

A Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th-century marriage norms. It aroused great controversy at the time, as it concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband and children because she wants to discover herself. Ibsen was inspired by the belief that "a woman cannot be herself in modern society," since it is "an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint." Its ideas can also be seen as having a wider application: Michael Meyer argued that the play's theme is not women's rights, but rather "the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that person.