by Maria Edgeworth · ALBA EDITORIAL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484280125
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The Absentee tells the story of Lord Colambre's family in London, far from their home in Ireland, where they have their businesses and responsibilities. The novel combines heroic and sentimental elements with a comic satire of the customs of the time. It is a work that explores shame and identity in a complex social context.
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.
