num_pages: 144
description: An Enemy of the People concerns the actions of Doctor Thomas Stockmann, a medical officer charged with inspecting the public baths on which the prosperity of his native town depends. He finds the water to be contaminated. When he refuses to be silenced, he is declared an enemy of the people. Stockmann served as a spokesman for Ibsen, who felt that his plays gave a true, if not always palatable, picture of life and that truth was more important than critical approbation.
language: English
title: An Enemy of the People
titlecomplete: An Enemy of the People
characters: Thomas Stockmann
genres: Fiction, Plays, 19th Century, Theatre, Classics, Scandinavian Literature, Politics, Drama, Literature, School
ratings_count: 13301
places: Norway
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux