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A Doll’s House ▾
contents
  1. Dramatis Personae
  2. Act I
  3. Act II
  4. Act III
English ▾

A Doll’s House

Henrik Ibsen, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp

free · 26,974 words · 2 h 31 m audiobook, read by volunteers for LibriVox · first published 1879

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Dramatis Personae

  • Torvald Helmer

  • Nora, his wife

  • Doctor Rank

  • Mrs. Linde

  • Nils Krogstad

  • Helmer’s three young children

  • Anne, their nurse

  • A Housemaid

  • A Porter

The action takes place in Helmer’s house.

Act I

A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly. At the back, a door to the right leads to the entrance hall, another to the left leads to Helmer’s study. Between the doors stands a piano. In the middle of the left-hand wall is a door, and beyond it a window. Near the window are a round table, armchairs and a small sofa. In the right-hand wall, at the farther end, another door; and on the same side, nearer the footlights, a stove, two easy chairs and a rocking chair; between the stove and the door, a small table. Engravings on the walls; a cabinet with china and other small objects; a small bookcase with well-bound books. The floors are carpeted, and a fire burns in the stove. It is winter.

restoring your place…

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genres

  • Romance

appears in

  • Great Books of the Western World
  • Short Reads

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A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp. The text is in the US public domain, from the Standard Ebooks edition. Served from our own copy; read on their site for the full edition with images and typography.

Narrated by Elizabeth Klett, mb, Miranda Stinson, Jordan Schneider, Anna Simon, David Muncaster, Andy, Alana Jordan, and Aleithia for LibriVox, also public domain.

First published in 1879.

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