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An Enemy of the People

Henrik Ibsen · 1882

An 1882 five-act play by Henrik Ibsen, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp, set in a Norwegian coastal town whose prosperity depends on new municipal baths overseen by Dr. Thomas Stockmann, the town's medical officer, amid tensions with his brother the mayor.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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