The miser
(2016)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media : Made available through hoopla, 2016
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781911495499 (electronic bk.) MWT11684016, 1911495496 (electronic bk.) 11684016
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The miser of the title is called Harpagon, a name adapted from the Latin harpago, meaning a hook or grappling iron. He is obsessed with the wealth he has amassed and always ready to save expenses. Now a widower, he has a son, Clǎnte, and a daughter, ⁹lise. Although he is over sixty, he is attempting to arrange a marriage between himself and an attractive young woman, Mariane
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