by Maria Edgeworth · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853262203
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«Castle Rackrent and The Absentee» is the double volume by Maria Edgeworth, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (362 pages, in English).
The volume brings together two novels by Maria Edgeworth. «Castle Rackrent», narrated by the servant Thady Quirk, is a satire of the decline of the landowning Rackrent family. «The Absentee», between rural Ireland and London society, denounces the abuses of absentee landlords.
Belongs to the Wordsworth Classics collection; New Ed edition, complete and unabridged, published in 1994.
For readers of classic fiction and Irish narrative interested in social satire.
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.
