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.