Hedda Gabler
By Henrik Ibsen (translated by William Archer and Edmund Gosse)
Cover: Interior with a Woman Seen from Behind (1903-04), oil on canvas by Vilhelm Hammersh�i (1864-1916) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1916)
Hedda, the general's daughter, newly married and bored with her husband Tesman, is drawn into the fortunes of his brilliant rival Lovborg. Her need to control other people's lives leads her to burn a manuscript and to a fatal act of her own.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.