Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Harpagon the most desperate scheming miser in literature starves his servants declines to pay them cheats his own children if he can save (or make) a few coins and when his hoard of gold disappears insanely accuses himself of being the thief. Dandin in this rousing classic not previously available in English for sixty years is a man in a plight that everybody but him will find entertaining.