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  • An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Ibsen

    eBook (, June 13, 2017)
    An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
  • An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Ibsen

    eBook (, June 25, 2017)
    An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
  • An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Ibsen

    eBook (, Aug. 19, 2017)
    An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
  • An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Ibsen

    Hardcover (Amereon Ltd, Sept. 1, 1967)
    None
  • An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Ibsen, Robert Farquharson Sharp

    Paperback (Independently published, Feb. 10, 2020)
    An Enemy of the People is an 1882 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen wrote it in response to the public outcry against his previous play, Ghosts, which challenged the hypocrisy of 19th-century morality.
  • An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Ibsen

    Paperback (Echo Library, June 1, 2007)
    The story of one man's brave struggle to do the right thing and speak the truth in the face of extreme social intolerance.
  • An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Ibsen

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 28, 2017)
    Hovstad. Don't you think the Doctor hits them pretty hard? Billing. Hard? Bless my soul, he's crushing! Every word falls like—how shall I put it?—like the blow of a sledgehammer. Hovstad. Yes, but they are not the people to throw up the sponge at the first blow. Billing. That is true; and for that reason we must strike blow upon blow until the whole of this aristocracy tumbles to pieces. As I sat in there reading this, I almost seemed to see a revolution in being.
  • An Enemy of the People - MP3 CD Audiobook in DVD case

    Henrik Ibsen, R. Farquarson Sharp

    MP3 CD Library Binding (MP3 Audiobook Classics, Jan. 1, 2018)
    The term “enemy of the people” has entered our modern lexicon, thanks to the unprecedented attacks on the press by the United States President for its stubborn insistence on reporting things as they are, not as he wishes they were in his idiosyncratic, imaginary world of “alternative facts”and fawning sycophants. This is, unfortunately,not new. The term may have first emerged in the 1882 play An Enemy of the People, written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in response to the public outcry that greeted his play Ghosts. Both the play and author were called scandalous, degenerate and immoral for daring to have an open discussion of sex outside of marriage and of syphilis. The play’s action centers on the discovery that a town’s public baths have been contaminated by syphilis. Dr. Thomas Stockmann, the protagonist and the medical officer at the baths, argues that the town be notified immediately by the town paper. The mayor, his older brother Peter,wants to lay low and handle it differently. The editor of the paper at first agrees with the doctor, and then has a change of heart, fearing damage to the town’s economy. Unbowed, the doctor calls a town meeting, at which he castigates the authorities and the cowardice of the majority of the public. Insulted and enraged, the townspeople shout repeatedly that “he is an enemy of the people”. They further react by smashing his windows, firing his schoolteacher daughter,disinheriting his wife, and evicting them from their house. Apart from its title, the play remains highly relevant today for its consideration of environmental issues, irresponsible authorities, and the moral dilemmas and perils of whistle-blowing.
  • Six Plays By Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House - Ghosts - an Enemy of the People - Rosmersholm - Hedda Gabler - The Master Builder

    Le Gallienne Eva Translator and Introduction

    Hardcover (The Modern Library, Jan. 1, 1957)
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  • An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Johan Ibsen

    Hardcover (Akasha Classics, Sept. 12, 2008)
    Should you always tell the truth, no matter what the personal cost? In Henrik Ibsen's classic play, An Enemy of the People, Dr. Tobias Stockman discovers that the town's health spa water is contaminated. When he announces this, he is at first hailed as a hero by his fellow citizens. But his campaign to have the spa closed for repair threatens the economy of the town, and Dr. Stockman finds himself an enemy of the people, facing hostility and ridicule for insisting on telling a truth that others do not want to hear. Written as a response to his own critics, Ibsen's 1882 fable has modern echoes, hailing the courage of those willing to stand against the crowd.
  • An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Ibsen

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Jan. 1, 1882)
    An Enemy of the People is an 1882 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen wrote it in response to the public outcry against his play Ghosts, which at that time was considered scandalous. Ghosts had challenged the hypocrisy of Victorian morality and was deemed indecent for its veiled references to syphilis. Upon completion of the play, Ibsen wrote to his publisher in Copenhagen, Denmark : "I am still uncertain as to whether I should call it a comedy or a straight drama. It may [have] many traits of comedy, but it also is based on a serious idea."
  • An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Johan Ibsen, 1st World Library, 1stworld Library

    Hardcover (1st World Library - Literary Society, Oct. 12, 2005)
    Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - DR. STOCKMANN'S sitting-room. It is evening. The room is plainly but neatly appointed and furnished. In the right-hand wall are two doors; the farther leads out to the hall, the nearer to the doctor's study. In the left-hand wall, opposite the door leading to the hall, is a door leading to the other rooms occupied by the family. In the middle of the same wall stands the stove, and, further forward, a couch with a looking-glass hanging over it and an oval table in front of it. On the table, a lighted lamp, with a lampshade. At the back of the room, an open door leads to the dining-room. BILLING is seen sitting at the dining table, on which a lamp is burning. He has a napkin tucked under his chin, and MRS. STOCKMANN is standing by the table handing him a large plate-full of roast beef. The other places at the table are empty, and the table somewhat in disorder, evidently a meal having recently been finished.)