(Dorothy Day was a Catholic convert in the 1930s who started the Catholic Worker movement with her friend, Peter Maurin. She was famous for serving the poor. To order her autobiography, click on The Long Loneliness.)

In 1922, Dorothy Day was arrested for the second time. Doing jail time as a suffragist in Washington, DC among socialites and intellectuals was vastly different from doing time among prostitutes dragged before the “morals court”.

She later wrote, “I do not think that ever again, no matter of what I am accused, can I suffer more than I did then from shame and regret, and self-contempt. Not only because I had been caught...but because of my own consciousness that I deserved it.” What exactly did she do?

Translated from Norwegian by Nicholas Rudall

Dover Thrift Edition, 1992. 84 pp.

Although we read about distant storms like tornadoes, floods and hurricanes daily, it is often the wild seas of relationships that cause us to fear that we might perish. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is an insightful view into the psychological drama and vulnerability of marriage.

Ibsen is considered by many to be the father of modern theater. A Doll’s House was among the first of Ibsen plays to use the stage as a soap box. The final act was considered so controversial that Ibsen wrote an alternative ending to be used “in cases of emergency.” Notoriety led to popular success; A Doll’s House was reprinted three times within the first three months of its original publishing date.