A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen
A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen
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A Dolls House

Author: Henrik Ibsen

Narrator: Noel Jarmaine, The Lantern

Unabridged: 2 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/18/2026

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

In Henrik Ibsen’s groundbreaking drama A Doll’s House, Nora Helmer appears to have the perfect life: a comfortable home, a loving husband, and a promising future. But beneath the cheerful surface lies a secret that could destroy everything she has built. Years earlier, Nora secretly borrowed money to save her husband’s life, forging a signature to secure the loan. Now, when the man who helped her threatens to expose the truth, Nora’s carefully maintained world begins to unravel.

As the consequences of her secret emerge, Nora is forced to confront the expectations that have shaped her life and marriage. Her husband, Torvald, sees her less as an equal partner than as a cherished possession, while Nora gradually begins to question what she truly wants and who she really is.

Exploring marriage, independence, gender roles, social expectations, and personal identity, A Doll’s House remains one of the most influential plays of modern drama. Ibsen’s powerful story challenges the meaning of love, duty, and freedom as Nora faces a life-changing decision.

About Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) was a major nineteenth-century Norwegian playwright, theater director, and poet. He is often referred to as “the father of prose drama” and is one of the founders of modernism in the theater. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll’s House, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder. Several of his plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theater was required to model strict mores of family life and propriety. Ibsen’s work examined the realities that lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality.


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