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ISBN: 9781853262203
Sumérgete en la Irlanda del siglo XVIII con 'Castle Rackrent', una novela clásica de Maria Edgeworth. Esta edición de Wordsworth Classics presenta una mirada completa e inalterada a la vida de la familia Rackrent y su castillo. A través de la narración de Thady Quirk, un sirviente leal, Edgeworth ofrece una sátira mordaz sobre la decadencia de la nobleza terrateniente irlandesa y las complejidades de las relaciones sociales en una época de cambio. Una lectura esencial para los amantes de la literatura clásica y aquellos interesados en la historia de Irlanda.
Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held critical views on estate management, politics, and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. During the first decade of the 19th century she was one of the most widely read novelists in Britain and Ireland. Her name today is most commonly associated with Castle Rackrent, her first novel, in which she, while Anglican herself, used the voice of an Irish Catholic character to narrate the dissipation and decline of a family from her own landed Anglo-Irish class.
