A Doll’s House (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

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This is Book 5, Collection III, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.
Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions.

Text Information

　Readability | 83.6

　Total word count | 25661

　Words beyond 1500 | 839

　Unknown word percentage (%) | 3.27

　Unknown headword occurrence | 2.24

　Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 37

　Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 164

Synopsis

Nora borrows some money from a man named Krogstad when her husband Torvald is ill, in order to pay for a trip to warmer climate to improve his health. Nora borrows the money without his knowledge to save his pride. Nora forges her father’s signature after he is dead to get the money. In order to pay off the debt, Nora saves money from an allowance Torvald gives her and she secretly works odd jobs.

Nora’s husband thinks she is childish and spends money carelessly, and he takes her for a doll. When Torvald is made manager of the Bank, the first thing he does is to fire a man who does dishonest things like forgery. That man is Krogstad. Krogstad says that if he loses his job he will expose Nora, so that Torvald will lose his reputation….

This book is rewritten from the three-act play “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen (1828－1906), which has been made into many films and TV series.

Genre: Drama / General (fancy, right?)