A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen’s breakthrough drama turns a bourgeois marriage into one of modern literature’s sharpest studies of freedom, performance, and self-respect.

At a glance A Doll’s House begins with the surfaces of comfort: a respectable home, holiday… Henrik Ibsen slowly turns that domestic setting into a stage for secrecy, financial… Why read A Doll’s House today? The play remains startling because its arguments still feel live.

What kind of classic is it?

About this book Nora Helmer’s apparently secure marriage unravels as debt, secrecy, and social performance force her to confront the terms of her own life.