The Master Builder

by Henrik Ibsen · 1892

Aging architect Halvard Solness, who has spent his career keeping younger rivals down and is haunted by the fire that built his fortune, is confronted by a strange young woman who demands he make good on a promise from her childhood: to climb as high as he builds. He climbs the tower on his newest house and falls to his death.

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• 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'?”