Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734051843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734051843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent and The Absentee
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Thady Quirk, steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a story of four generations of a dying dynasty in Castle Rackrent. This volume also includes Ennui, the entertaining confessions of the Earl of Glenthorn, a bored aristocrat. Both novels offer a darkly comic and satirical expose of the Irish class system.
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Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Castle Rackrent
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8728185382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
It is 'Downton Abbey' meets 'Succession' - but in the 18th century. Four generations of heirs to the Rackrent estate in Ireland are shown to have unique talents for mismanaging it. The careless big spender Sir Patrick O'Shaughlin, litigious Sir Murtagh Rackrent, abusive gambler Sir Kit Rackrent and the kind but unwise Sir Condy Rackrent are brought vividly to life by Maria Edgeworth through a narrator, Rackrent steward Thady Quirk. As the four heirs fight and foul up, behind the scenes there is a master manipulator pulling the strings. Will he benefit from the chaos? 'Castle Rackrent' is Edgeworth's first novel and is regarded as pioneering in the field of historical and regional novels. It satirises Anglo-Irish landlords at a time when the English and Irish governments were trying to formalise their union. The novel is alluded to in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'. It is also cited by Sir Walter Scott as the inspiration for his 'Waverley' historical novels. The Irish poet and dramatist W.B. Yeats called Castle Rackrent "one of the most inspired chronicles written in English." The Irish writer Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) was highly regarded in her day as a pioneer of early 19th century fiction and children's literature. A friend of the novelist Sir Walter Scott ('Ivanhoe', 'Rob Roy'), she was active and vocal about political and estate reform. Today, she is rather underappreciated - and overshadowed - by other 19th century satirical novelists like Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope. A prolific writer, Edgeworth's best-known works include 'Ennui', 'The Dun' and 'Belinda', which was controversial in its day for featuring inter-racial marriage.
Castle Rackrent
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393922417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The only edition of this 1800 novel--widely regarded as the first historical novel--to include supporting materials on both the importance of Maria Edgeworth as a writer and the influence of contemporary history on this novel.
Castle Rackrent, and The Absentee
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administration of estates
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Castle Rackrent & The Absentee
Author: Maria EdgeworthThe Absentee
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775415929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.
Castle Rackrent
Author: Maria EdgeworthCastle Rackrent
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775418294
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
The Castle Rackrent estate is owned by four generations of Englishmen, each dissipated, cruel or improvident in some way. Their lives are chronicled by the estate's Irish steward, Thady Quirk. He is one of the first examples in literature of the unreliable narrator, and as the story progresses we see how the estate is kept from ruin by Quirk's son - to his own advantage and benefit.