The renowned French playwright Molière's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize–winning translator Richard Wilbur.
The rich bourgeois Orgon has become a bigot and prude. The title character, a wily opportunist and swindler, affects sancity and gains complete ascendancy over Ogron, who not only attemps to turn over his fortune but offers his daughter in marriage to his "spiritual" guide.
Translated and with an Introduction by Richard Wilbur.
- ISBN10 0156881802
- ISBN13 9780156881807
- Publish Date 10 January 1968
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperCollins
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 176
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.com.au/9780156881807