In a small Norwegian town, Mrs. Alving prepares to dedicate an orphanage in her late husband's memory—a final act to bury the secrets of a marriage built on lies. But when her son Oswald returns from Paris, carrying a dark secret of his own, the carefully constructed facade begins to crumble. As old ghosts emerge—the manipulative Pastor Manders, the scheming carpenter Engstrand, and the mysterious maid Regina—Mrs. Alving is forced to confront the truth about her husband's debauchery and the price of silence. Ibsen's devastating drama of inherited disease, hypocrisy, and the chains of duty is here retold in vivid, contemporary prose while preserving its raw emotional power. A story as urgent today as when it first scandalized the world. Part of Timeless Classics.