AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (1882)
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CHARACTERS.
Doctor Thomas Stockmann, medical officer of the Baths.
Mrs. Stockmann, his wife.
Petra, their daughter, a teacher.
Eilif Petra }their sons, thirteen and ten years old respectively
Peter Stockmann, the doctor’s elder brother, Burgomaster[5] and chief of police, chairman of the Baths Committee, etc.
Morten Kiil,[6] master tanner, Mrs. Stockmann’s adoptive-father.
Hovstad, editor of the “People’s Messenger.”
Billing, on the staff of the paper.
Horster, a ship’s captain.
Aslaksen, a printer.
Participants in a meeting of citizens: all sorts and conditions of men, some women, and a band of schoolboys.
The action passes in a town on the South Coast of Norway.
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