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Mrs. Alving is building an orphanage as a memorial to her husband, and her son Oswald has returned for the occasion after many years abroad. The sins of the father are visited upon the unfortunate Oswald, however, and what unfolds is a staggering tale involving religion, venereal disease, incest and euthanasia.
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78 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1881



I'm inclined to think that we are all ghosts, every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. It's all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs...It's not that they actually live on in us; they are simply lodged there, and we cannot get rid of them.
"The sins of the father are visited upon the children."
Throughout IBSEN'S entire play, written in 1881, imagine an atmosphere that is nothing but rain and gloom, and subject matters ominously dark and grim all the way to a hopeless and shocking conclusion. That is what you will unearth in GHOSTS.
What a scandalous work of fiction for the time and unexpected read for me!