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Richard Wilbur
School For Wives And The Learned Ladies, By Moliere [EPUB ebook]
Two comedies in an acclaimed translation.

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The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. Wilbur…makes Moliere into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one (John Simon, New York). Introductions by Richard Wilbur.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 324 ● ISBN 9780547544533 ● Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ● Published 1991 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5826615 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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