Castle Rackrent and Ennui
$37.37
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
27 August 1992
Summary
Marilyn Butler’s introduction discusses how these two bold, groundbreaking works established Edgeworth’s reputation as a pioneer of the nineteenth-century novel.
Thady Quirk, devoted steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a riotous story of four generations of a dying dynasty in Castle Rackrent (1800). Thady will defend his masters to the end, but eventually his naivety and blind loyalty cause him to ignore the warning signs as the family’s excesses l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140433203 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140433201 |
| Author: | Maria Edgeworth, Marilyn Butler |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 27 August 1992 |
| Weight: | 269g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
About The Author
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth was born in 1768. Her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800) was also her first Irish tale. The next such tale was Ennui (1809), after which came The Absentee, which began life as an unstaged play and was then published (in prose) in Tales of Fashionable Life (1812), as were several of her other stories. They were followed in 1817 by the last of her Irish tales, Ormond. Maria Edgeworth died in 1849.
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