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Ghosts

By Henrik Ibsen (translated by R. Farquharson Sharp)

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Cover: Scene from Ibsen's Ghosts (1906), tempera on canvas by Edvard Munch (1863-1944) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1944)

Mrs Alving is about to open an orphanage in memory of her late husband, whom everyone remembers as a model citizen, when her son Oswald comes home from Paris. The secrets of the household, kept for twenty years, begin to come out.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Act 1
  2. 2: Act 2
  3. 3: Act 3