Harpagon loves only his money box, buried in his garden, and suspects everyone of wanting to rob him. He plans to marry his daughter to a rich old man who will take her without a dowry, and to marry the young woman his own son is in love with. When the box disappears, the whole house turns upside down. Molière's comedy, quick and full of short lines, in the French of the seventeenth century.
Molière
L'Avare
English translation by Charles Heron Wall, 1894
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