Le Misanthrope

pièce en vers de Molière, is, finally, in my considered judgement, the most stupendously witty thing I've ever read. Along with, of course, in witty truthfulness, The Rape of the Lock. Followed closely by The Way of the World, a dozen or so of Fontaine's Fables and, of course, Candide. But first of all, Le Misanthrope. I haven't read it for dozen years or more, but it lies at my heart.