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A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen

Start date: October 1, 2018

Finish date: October 31, 2018

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Jan 23, 2011 Chrissie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: relationships, classics, feminism, norway, drama, 2016-read, deals

I will reread this. I want to see if:

-I will still think it worth five stars.
-I enjoy Audible dramatizations.

It is an Audible Daily Deal today (2016-03-30), so it only costs 99 cents.

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I did like this a lot, the second time around. I have given it four stars. There were lines that I objected to, that I thought could have been improved. I loved the denouement. I loved when at the end Nora lets Torvald “have it”. She talks and talks and tries to explain, for the first time after eight ye ...more

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Oct 08, 2012 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-19th-century, read-2012, drama, scandinavian-literature, audio-books

Drama on 3:
Tanika Gupta transposes the setting of Ibsen's classic play to India in1879 where Nora is an Indian woman married to Torvald, an English man working for the British Colonial Administration in Calcutta. Nora risks her own reputation in order to save her husband's and in the process discovers herself. This new version of A Doll's House takes a fresh look at the play shining a light on British colonial history and race relations as well as gender politics and class.