An Enemy of the People

Henrik Johan Ibsen

SMK Books, 2012 - Fiction - 100 pages

An Enemy of the People addresses the irrational tendencies of the masses, and the hypocritical and corrupt nature of the political system that they support. It is the story of one brave man's struggle to do the right thing and speak the truth in the face of extreme social intolerance.

About the author

Henrik Ibsen, poet and playwright was born in Skein, Norway, in 1828. His creative work spanned 50 years, from 1849-1899, and included 25 plays and numerous poems. During his middle, romantic period (1840-1875), Ibsen wrote two important dramatic poems, Brand and Peer Gynt, while the period from 1875-1899 saw the creation of 11 realistic plays with contemporary settings, the most famous of which are A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Wild Duck. Henrik Ibsen died in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway in 1906.

Bibliographic information

• Title: An Enemy of the People
• Author: Henrik Johan Ibsen
• Publisher: SMK Books, 2012
• ISBN: 1617205192, 9781617205194
• Length: 100 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics