The miser
By: Molière ; translated by Martin Sorrell
Contributors: Sorrell, Martin, translator
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Work titles: Avare
Description: Harpagon is an unashamed miser. Yet he lives in relative wealth that he takes great pains to protect. Now a widower and over seventy years of age, he plans on marrying Mariane - a wholly inappropriate choice given her young age and her existing romantic attachment to his son, Cléante. As part of an impoverished family, Cléante helps secure Mariane a loan much to his father's ire. Meanwhile, Harpagon's daughter Élise is in love with Valère but her father plans to sell her off to a much higher bidder, preferably the wealthy Anselme.
Notes: This translation previously issued in print: London: Nick Hern Books, 2004.

Translated from the French.