Author: Henrik Ibsen
Cited by
- Patrick White (1)
- IN: A Fringe of Leaves (1976) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: Rat-Wife: Humbly begging pardon - are your worships troubled with any gnawing things in the house?
Almers: Here? No, I don't think so.
Rat-Wide: If you had, it would be such a pleasure to rid your worships' house of them.
Rita: Yes, yes, we understand. But we have nothing of the sort here.
FROM: Little Eyolf, (1894), Play, Norway
- Dea Brovig (1)
- IN: The Last Boat Home (2014) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
FROM: An Enemy of the People, (1882), Play, Norway
- Sarah Dunn (1)
- IN: The Arrangement (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
FROM: Peer Gynt, (1867), Play, Norway
- Virginia MacGregor (1)
- IN: The Astonishing Return of Norah Wells (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: [From below comes the noise of a door slamming.]
FROM: A Doll's House, (1879), Play, Norway
- Mark Lawson (1)
- IN: The Deaths (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: When that hour comes -- when they realize they can't do without me any longer -- when they come upstairs to me in this room and go down on their knees and beg me to take up the reins at the bank again -- the new bank -- which they founded and can't manage -- here I will stand and receive them.
FROM: John Gabriel Borkman, (1896), Play, Norway