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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

Molière's story of a covetous old miser, obsessively protecting his hoard of gold and neglecting his long-suffering children.

Harpagon is obsessed with the wealth he has amassed and always ready to save expenses. Now a widower, he has a son, Cléante, and a daughter, Élise. Although he is over sixty, he is attempting to marry his son's own sweetheart, Mariane.

But it seems that Harpagon's pinchpenny paranoia is finally catching up with him – his gold is missing, and this time it might really have disappeared for good...

The Miser was first performed in 1668, at the theatre of the Palais-Royal, Paris.

This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic series, is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell.

The Miser

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    A Paperback / softback by Molière, Martin Sorrell

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      Publisher Nick Hern Books
      Published 24 September 2004
      ISBN-13 9781854597489
      978-1854597489
      ISBN-10 1854597485
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      Poetry Books by Molière

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

      Molière's story of a covetous old miser, obsessively protecting his hoard of gold and neglecting his long-suffering children.

      Harpagon is obsessed with the wealth he has amassed and always ready to save expenses. Now a widower, he has a son, Cléante, and a daughter, Élise. Although he is over sixty, he is attempting to marry his son's own sweetheart, Mariane.

      But it seems that Harpagon's pinchpenny paranoia is finally catching up with him – his gold is missing, and this time it might really have disappeared for good...

      The Miser was first performed in 1668, at the theatre of the Palais-Royal, Paris.

      This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic series, is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell.

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