I finished reading The Covetous Knight (1830), a short play by Alexander Pushkin, translated by A. F. B. Clark. I subsequently learned that Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote a one act opera known as The Miserly Knight based closely on Pushkin’s text.

The plot is simple and focuses on the avarice of an elderly baron and his son’s attempts to use the influence of the local duke to extract some money from his father. It’s a tragedy and, like so many well-written plays, I found myself drawn into the characters and plot very quickly.

“Yet by trifles ‘tis
That treasures grow.”