Excerpts from the Book 'Ghosts':

... Mrs. Alving to revolt. And just because she is a woman, she will, when once she has begun, go to the utmost extremes.. Towards the end of January ...
... Gengangere. Gradually the prejudice against the play broke down. Already in the autumn of 1883 it was produced at the Royal (Dramatiska) Theatre in ...
... and impair its claim to rank as the poet's masterpiece. Even in prose drama, his greatest and most consummate achievements were yet to come. Must we, ...
... long with me, my girl. No such luck. If you knew how to play your cards, such a fine figure of a girl as you've grown in the last year or two-. REGINA. ...
... leave Mrs. Alving she has always been so kind to me. MANDERS. But a daughter's duty, my good girl-Of course, we should first have to get your mistress's ...
... make good the damage. MRS. ALVING. No I tell you plainly I should do nothing of the kind. MANDERS. Then I must tell you, Mrs. Alving-we are taking ...
... You don't say so. MRS. ALVING. Oh, it was a trifling matter. A heap of shavings had caught fire in the carpenter's workshop. MANDERS. Where Engstrand ...
... no doubt-. MRS. ALVING. I have too. OSWALD. Well, you may take their word for it. They know what they are talking about. [Presses has hands to his ...
... Manders-I will tell you the truth. I have sworn to myself that one day you should know it-you alone. MANDERS. What is the truth, then. MRS. ...
... made Lieutenant Alving a good match in his day. MANDERS. I don't understand-. MRS. ALVING. It was my purchase-money. I do not choose that that ...
... is not the right sort of woman. MANDERS. Well, what then. What do you mean. MRS. ALVING. If I weren't such a pitiful coward, I should say to him, ...
... Why-a man's conscience-it can be bad enough now and then. MANDERS. Ah, you admit that. Then perhaps you will make a clean breast of it, and tell ...
... your Reverence a bit of a question. MANDERS. Yes, if you want to. ENGSTRAND. Isn't it right and proper for a man to raise up the fallen. MANDERS. ...
... led a dissipated life never, in any respect. You mustn't believe that of me, mother. I've never done that. MRS. ALVING. I am sure you haven't, Oswald. OSWALD. ...
... struck him in the face-. MRS. ALVING. [Walks away across the room.] The sins of the fathers-. OSWALD. [Smiles sadly.] Yes what do you think of ...
... door.] There. We have had a most edifying time down there. OSWALD. So have we. MANDERS. We must stand by Engstrand and his Sailors' Home. Regina ...
... forgive me. MANDERS. [With a sigh.] And unfortunately I cannot tell how long I shall be able to retain control of these things-whether public opinion ...
... shall have leave to, presently. And meanwhile sit over here beside us. [REGINA seats herself demurely and hesitatingly at the other side of the table.]. MRS. ...
... of work-all that is not the illness itself-. MRS. ALVING. Then what is the illness itself. OSWALD. The disease I have as my birthright-[He ...
... saw me lying there helpless, like a little new-born baby, impotent, lost, hopeless-past all saving-. MRS. ALVING. Never in all the world would Regina ...