A doctor who exposes his town's contaminated baths is branded a traitor for threatening its prosperity. Ibsen's drama of the individual against the majority.
Books that mention An Enemy of the People (1)
The Awkward Age by Henry James: “What virtues of the same order would have attached to'The Pillars of Society,' to'An Enemy of the People,' to'Ghosts,' to'Rosmersholm' (or taking also Ibsen's'subtler period') to'John Gabriel Borkmann,' to'The Master-Builder'?”