An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen (translated by R. Farquharson Sharp)
Cover: Struggle for Existence (1889), oil on canvas by Christian Krohg (1852-1925) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1925)
Dr Stockmann finds that the baths on which his town's prosperity depends are poisoned, and expects to be thanked for saying so. Instead the newspaper, the mayor, who is his brother, and the townspeople turn on him.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.