The Miser

by Molière · 1668

An obsessive miser's love of his money-box wrecks his children's happiness and his own. Molière's classic comedy of avarice.

Books that mention The Miser (2)

• The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “the protagonist of his play The Miser is always the same”
• Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “Molière's Miser is a version of Plautus's Aulularia”